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The Fastest Bird on Earth Learns to Stop
70 KM/H… THEN FREEZES?
A short from AnimalDex, from Ostrich learns Defensive Sprint from the African Pygmy Hedgehog. Every claim in it comes from that page, which has the full detail and sources.
Published 24 October 2026. AI-narrated, with motion added to some images.
Transcript
- 0:0070 KM/H… THEN FREEZES?. The fastest bird on Earth just learned to stop.
- 0:03Ostrich (Defensive Sprint). Seventy kilometres an hour across the savanna... then nothing. She drops, still as stone, feathers bristling like a hedgehog's spines. The predator overshoots. Sometimes the smartest move is stopping.
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