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- Cheetah
The cheetah can run faster than any other land animal - as fast as 112 to 120 kilometers per hour in short bursts covering distances up to 500 meters, and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 kilometers per hour in three seconds.
Michael Ende
- The Neverending Story
A giant, who looked as if the whole of him were made of gray stone, lay stretched out on his belly. He was almost ten feet long. Propped on one elbow, he was looking in to the fire. In his weather-beaten stone face, which seemed strangely small in comparison with his powerful shoulder, his teeth stood out like a row of steel chisels.