🏆 Animal record breakers
The champions among the 105 animals on Peabody, each with the one that came second. Every number links to the page it came from.
🏃 The fastest: Peregrine falcon
🦅 200 mph322 km/h1 · second: 🐆 Cheetah, 60 to 70 mph96 to 112 km/h2
Top speed, however the animal moves: running, swimming, flying or diving.
⚖️ The heaviest: Blue whale
🐋 165 tons150 tonnes3 · second: 🐋 Sperm whale, 15 to 45 tons14 to 41 tonnes4
The heaviest grown-up weight a source gives.
📏 The longest: Blue whale
🐋 110 ft34 m3 · second: 🐋 Sperm whale, 40 to 52 ft12 to 16 m4
Nose to tail tip.
🎂 The longest-living: Aldabra giant tortoise
🐢 100 years100 years5 · second: 🦞 American lobster, 100 years100 years6
How long it can live, by the number its source gives.
🔍 The smallest: Leafcutter ant
🐜 0.079 to 0.47 in2 mm to 1.2 cm7 · second: 🐞 Seven-spotted ladybug, 0.39 in1 cm8
The shortest nose to tail (or wingspan, for a butterfly).
- National Park Service, Denali and Yukon-Charley Rivers, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, Cheetah, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Park Science: leafcutter ant Atta mexicana at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Ladybug article, checked 30 October 2026.