Sarah, a cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo, recently earned the title of world’s fastest land animal when she covered 100 meters in 5.95 seconds, beating her previous world record of 6.13 seconds set in 2009. By comparison, Sarah ran almost 4 seconds faster than the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, with a top speed clocked at 61 mph. Her run was photographed for a November 2012 National Geographic magazine article that will include never-before-seen high speed photographs and video of cheetah movement.
