• Question: what is the name of the most fastest fish?

    Asked by ramz555 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I didn’t know off the top of my head, though I do know even the littlest ones swim pretty fast when you try and poke them!

      Apparently it’s a Sailfish though.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Yeah, the sailfish can swim at 70 miles and hour, as fast as a car on the motorway! I wouldn’t fancy meeting one of them when I was in a rush!

      Did you know that if you made all the animals the same size, a cockroach would be the fastest!

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Have you ever seen a flying fish? They jump out of the water when they are swimming and they move so fast it looks like they are flying. I saw them when i was on holiday in Thailand

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I’ve seen videos of swordfish which hunt other smaller fish and they are very fast, the camera can barely keep up with them. In the water, humans can’t go that fast compared to a lot of animals so even birds like penguins, which are slow on land, seem quite quick to us in the water.

      Here is a good video of sailfish,

      and apparently they change colour while hunting. I feel a bit sorry for the fish though 🙁

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