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So when it comes to flying in the animal world, the fastest flyer out there is not a bird.

It is in fact a mammal. Oh, is it a bat? Squirrel? Swifts are really fast. Peregrine falcons are really fast. Gray-headed? Is this one of those things you can't call them birds? These are all birds that I'm going to stick here. The gray-headed albatross. They're all fast. The gray-headed or great-headed? Gray-headed, G-R-E-Y. I thought you said great-head. But when it comes to level flight, you know, the Perrigan Falcons can achieve over 200 miles an hour, but that only happens when they're dive bombing. Yeah. Got it. You know, they're coming off a cliff or something, and then they're so streamlined, if they go

straight down, they can achieve speeds of, I think I've read 240 miles an hour.

Wow.

But the Brazilian freetailed bat.

Always a bat.

Way about the size of a walnut.

Wow, that's creepy looking too.

And known for their enormous roosts.

Apparently, they get into trees by the millions.

Wow.

And spiral out right around sunset.

And they could go about 100 miles an hour.

Straight sideways.

Yeah, flat flight.

For how long?

Doesn't say how long they can sustain it.

Yeah, could they fly across the country real quickly?

Right, here's how they did it.

Every night for a week at twilight, one scientist stood outside the mouth of the cave and gently knitted a single female. And then he attached a tiny radio transmitter. That's got to be really tiny. Yeah. To her back and released it back into the column of emerging bats. Where it's not any weight to slow her down, right? Yeah. 20 miles away. A second scientist was on standby

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