When a cheetah runs, there's plenty of motion. After all, the animal can crack speeds of 60 miles per hour when it's sprinting after prey, making it the fastest land animal in the world.

How can humans get to be that fast? In this recent video from Wired, Cheetah biologist Adrienne Crosier and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Chris Raynor explain why cheetahs are so quick and why humans and ...

But most of the time, the cheetahs didn’t run as fast as they could. Across their hunts, their average top speed was just 33 mph (15 metres per second) and they only hit that for one or two seconds.

Shiley’s Cheetah Run takes place on a 330-foot strip ofmanicured grass between the African Cats exhibit and the tetheredBalloon Safari. The new show, which takes place […] Skip to content ...