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Top speed of a California Sea Lion swimming

Top speed of a California Sea Lion swimming (21.6 km/h)

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Top speed of a California Sea Lion swimming (21.6 km/h)

  • is 1/100 of Speed of Concorde passenger SST (2,140 km/h)...more
  • is 1/40 of Speed of a commercial airliner (880 km/h)...more
  • is 1/40 of Fastest speed attained by a propeller aircraft (870 km/h)...more
  • is 1/4 of Top speed of a horse (88 km/h)...more

If this was a standard unit ...

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