Peregrine Falcons Are Like Tiny Missiles (The Fabulous Fact Fiend Models)

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Original Article:
www.factfiend.com/peregrine-fa...
Souces:
www.science.org/content/artic...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Images:
Peregrine Falcon,
Christopher Watson (www.comebirdwatching.blogspot...., CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Flea,
Andrei Savitsky, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Tarantula,
George Chernilevsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Shark,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wh...
Falcon Helmets,
www.flickr.com/photos/mykreev...
Clips:
Fastest Animal Makes a Kill | World's Deadliest (2013), Nat Geo WILD
• Fastest Animal Makes a...
Music:
From filmmusic.io
"Two Finger Johnny" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

[@Angel-hn1bd]

The Peregrine Falcons don't use there talons when divebomb but it roll them up and make a tiny fist to punch there prey. so they do an actual falcon punch.

[@Jacquer68]

Kickpuncher!!

[@robrick92]

Falcon Punch!!!

[@SharkfightersSH]

I've been looking for this. It's actually scary. There is footage of a kill by these falcons with a normal camera. It's just visible in one frame and the other bird just appears to drop dead for no reason.

[@khelsonpartain8121]

Fun little science fact: the reason insects are so crazy when scaled up is due to the cubed/squared law. Volume (and therefore mass) increases WAY faster than surface area, so smaller creatures have comparatively less mass to deal with than larger animals. If a flea was actually scaled up to the size of a human, it wouldn't move nearly as quickly (comparatively) as it does now.

[@goji-0045]

Ye pretty sure it would be crushed under its own weight

[@sleepylion9511]

That and heat is a massive problem. Its the reason why mamals can't just reapirate through their skin like insects, and must have respiratory systems. Also why elephants have wrinkly skin and such large ears. If an insect or even some rodents were scaled up they would also cook themselves to death. (Pls correct me if I'm wrong)

[@-Graham]

Catching those G's!

[@HappyDragneels_page]

@@sleepylion9511 it wouldnt even get that far, insects dont breathe through their skin per se, they have a system of hollow tubes all through their body called trachae (similar to the trachea and bronchioles in human respitory system) leading to openings in their exoskeleton called spiracles, to pull in gas they contract and expand their whole bodies. basically most insects are one big lung, if you scale that up you have a lot more mass/volume, but the tubes are now massive tunnels and there wouldnt be enough surface area for gas exchange. if you shot an insect with a mega ray it would either immediately be crushed under its own weight or asphyxiate. anyway happy friday. edit: however you are correct in theory if they survived gravity and the whole suffocation thing they would overheat, in fact most things, even big things, would overheat if you made it bigger, an organisms scale defines so many of its features. goes the other way too, if you had goldfish sized whales their fins would be too small to swim and theyd drown :(

[@markleehouston]

isnt the fast thing on earth is a fungus shooting its spores off cow shit

[@notoriousd.i.g.87]

Falcons have relatively small talons compared to other raptor birds, so unlike other similar birds they can't just catch food and stab it to death in its grip. Hence, they dive bomb prey and punch the shit out of it.

[@DickDiamond74]

Falcon PUNCH!

[@travismurtland3257]

@@DickDiamond74 kinda disappointed in Karl for not pointing that out lol

[@joes5010]

Do they dive bomb because of small talons or do they have small talons because they dive bomb?

[@travismurtland3257]

@@joes5010 the age old question

[@allisonbergh4429]

Their little fists are kinda cute. Like when a toddler threatens you, only actually capable of following through 😅

[@reedaldridge4861]

Lmao I’ve always had the ol perigine falcons are the fastest animal in the world card when the conversation wants to get controversial, as people reply with cheeta

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

Well another bird is faster in powered flight I think it’s a swallow or swift

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

By which I mean a-b straight line not in a dive

[@jessebott1879]

Flying animals will most likely be the fastest. Ducks alone can fly 60 in a straight line.

[@havoc1768]

What about the peacock mantis do they punch slower? I just checked mantis shrimp punch at 50mph, a lot slower than I at first thought.

[@jessebott1879]

@@havoc1768 I thought they punched faster too. Just saw a clip of a guy catching one while kayak fishing. It ended up punching him on the foot and it broke threw his neoprene boot and broke the skin to the point he was bleeding pretty good. The fishermen was surprised on how much it hurt.

[@HappyDragneels_page]

the reason the falcon is more maneuverable whilst its diving is because the air is flowing over its wings faster, which it uses like the alierons on a plane or the spoiler on a car, the faster the airflow the more force it can redirect to move its mass f1 cars can drive upside down (in theory) because their spoilers generate enormous downforce at speed, wings are just cooler adaptive spoilers

[@VELIkiq8]

However on planes once you exede certain speed the controls stiffen up and its almost imposible to maneuver the plane. (sorry for my bad english)

[@HappyDragneels_page]

@@VELIkiq8 yes you are talking about supersonic flight, once you go faster than around 600 mph the air starts to compress, which completely changes flight mechanics, air that is compressed is denser, heavier, and harder to move and starts to behave like a liquid, so the air control surfaces get held in place, like a car door underwater, locked closed by the density difference

[@r4tch3t]

Plus they don't have to flap their wings to keep level. They can use their wings completely for contorl when diving.

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

If the Phrase "Falcon Punch" doesn't make an appearance, I'll be disappointed. I'm disappointed.

[@ViruZ42]

I live in Springfield where these roost on highrise buildings and there was once one that exploded a glass wall for a shop that wasn't installed yet because a squirrel was behind it and it was perfectly clear, shattered it to pieces.

[@israeltovar3513]

The peregrine falcon dives so fast, it has small tubers in the entrance to his nasal openings. Without them, air would be flowing so fast in front of the bird it would either not enter reliably(smothering the bird), or, when entering, it would be too violent, hurting it. Just like the SR-71 engine's cones, the tubers break the flow in lower speed, turbulent air, allowing it to breathe comfortable when reaching 200 mph+

[@geckokid8265]

I would definitely like to see some more bizarre model pictures like Karl was talking about

[@ChrisP-wj1zy]

I’m going to take this opportunity to personally thank the fact fiend crew!

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

The animal olympics were so fun. I remember a few times the insects broke the record, but missed the target so they were disqualified, which was the only way for them to not win every game. But scaling insects up was cheating in its own way since they didn't account for gravity or or the square-cube law. Scaled up insects would die under gravity and oxygen

[@sintanan469]

They should have done size or weight categories for the sports like we do with some competitive sports.

[@MalcontentRobot]

Fucken lost it at "Tiny feathered meat-bullet" thanks, boss!

[@cloudysky7430]

I personally would love a crazy photoshoot of TShirts in weird situations.

[@travismurtland3257]

I was walking around my neighborhood watching animals like rabbits. I watched the rabbit vanish, then saw a bird carrying a rabbit in the distance. Now Peregrine Falcons are my favorite

[@itayvolk]

11:30 they also thought about putting incendiary bombs on bats but the bats decided to nest next to a fuel tank

[@iancpowell]

Having a Peregrine just drop out of the sky into the yard with the rush of air and audible boom is an insane experience.

[@ryanatkins5736]

When traveling faster through air the resistance and friction determines direction. Small movements have larger effects at higher speeds. The same hand put of a car window feels different at 200 than at 60. At high enough speed the drag from a hand out the window would turn the whole car.

[@tektrixter]

I suspect the hand would be removed from the wrist before there was enough force to turn the whole car.

[@Verbose_Mode]

This. Because of this, the smaller wings are REALLY GOOD for maneuvering at 200+ MPH, but requires a lot of effort at low speeds because they're to small.

[@FearTheRelicFighter]

I've never seen someone other then me that can do the humming+whistle! I feel validated.

[@3spy1rex3]

I learned it from watching Jin Carey do it in an outtake of Bruce Almighty

[@3spy1rex3]

Karl’s not very good at it tho! 😂

[@-Graham]

I always did this as a kid but the only other time I heard it was on South Park where Chef was brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club. Start of season 10 IIRC

[@zenjitlst1330]

this episode really makes me think of the channel tierzoo on KZbin. the whole comparison of animals vibe and the really nerdy gamer talk mixed in with badass animal statistics

[@e.schroeder474]

I had no idea Bonely was just always behind the desk. SO much stuff, incredible. Absolutely love it

[@Zaalpe]

Giant flea reminded me of Animorphs when one of them, I wanna say Marco, almost got trapped mid morph when turning back into a human from a flea so he was basically a giant flea. He tried to instinctively jump when he was freaking out but couldn't because he was too big because it's jumping ability doesn't scale up.

[@ElParteDiscotecas]

Fun fact: around half the speed of sound, the air acquires the ability to be compressed, thus increasing the drag of anything moving at that speed (or higher) by a lot. Maybe that acts like a natural speed limit for the falcon

[@andrewolson5471]

"tiny feathered meat bullet," has to be the funniest phrase I've ever heard in reference to a bird. Ever.

[@jamielonsdale3018]

1:40 That's a really cool Golden Tree Frog impersonation, Karl! Whistling and humming isnt that hard to learn (provided you can already whistle) but it takes some practise to get a good, clean tone. Also, if you get the right balance between the whistle and the hum, you can sound like a high-powered hybrid race-car zooming past with the throttle pinned open. Really cool technique I totally forgot about until this video. Thanks for jogging that memory :)

[@GIAP11977]

Carl just pulling all that shit from hammerspace was amazing

[@weirdbutokay4750]

"Great clothes, even for crappy days" Was the first day I thought of when you mentioned the shirt models being in odd situations

[@Scriven42]

Friend of mine used to live in the 90's in one of the apartment buildings that the peregrines frequented in Toronto. He heard it hit a pigeon in flight outside his building, but by the time he turned around, all that was left was a falling cloud of pigeon feathers...

[@hillbillywizard497]

I just remembered the time I saw a raptor, maybe a hawk, fly face first into a store window and proceed to just sit on the side looking around trying to find out what had happened or what it had hit. And 5 to 10 minutes after it hit the window it flew off like nothing happened

[@derekrivera3487]

I'm was a professional skydiver for years and taking a pet skydiving is obviously a crazy topic that has come up I know people that have taken sugar gliders in their suit and let them out under parachute but I've heard of a guy that has a falcon he skydived with might be a bs story but if you can get it out the plane it seems feasible I'd be afraid to lose it tho..

[@Jackofafewtrades]

There's a dude on social media that goes gliding with some largeish bird so there's that.

[@derekrivera3487]

@@Jackofafewtrades that's sick will definitely check that out I've heard of specifically a falcon and at terminal velocity but can't say I've seen it so it might be made up but I have seen a skydiving sasquatch so those are definitely real too lol

[@thelittledipper5872]

A peregrine falcon once landed on my front porch while I was eating breakfast. It was the coolest thing ever.

[@Beer-can_full_of_toes]

I work for a school and one of our bus drivers had a falcon go through the windshield of his bus one morning. It was violent and it destroyed the glass entirely while also damaging the drivers face and hands. Also a friend of mines dad got into falconry for a while and would use his bird to hunt. In order to get one you capture them with these cool traps that just gently cover the birds wings with wire bits. When they’re on the ground they are very docile and if captured will offer little to no fight at all. While he was looking for the right one he caught several falcons before deciding on one. The trap has a clear box to put bait in. He put two hamsters in this box and the birds would dive for them. So as I’m being told this I ask my friend “so your dad used the same two poor hamsters? Those guys have got some serious PTSD.”

[@wilbo_baggins]

I remember the animal games. Got aired here in New Zealand once. I remember the rhino beetle and the swimming insect that was basically doing donuts between each lap of the pool.

[@dustinchriswell3586]

Always been my favorite of the modern dinosaurs.

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

Birds are cool and I will fight for that statement

[@Lyander25]

Any other Animorphs fans in the crowd? Hah!

[@Lyander25]

@@jbrone1241 HELL YEAH

[@alayablack9104]

The fact you have a copy of z rex on your desk made my day, was talking to a mate of mine the other day about reading that and z raptor back in highschool

[@JeepnHeel]

They might not look like much, but they've got it where it counts, kids

[@Indra_the_goblin]

For the record and just cuz it's fun; the fastest animal movement comes from an ant called the dracula ant (fucking awesome name), it pushes it jaws together and builds up energy until it let's them slide past each other at 90 metres per second which is about 200 mph.

[@GwilsonDrums]

I've had the privilege of actually flying a Peregrine Falcon for my 30th birthday present, used a proper bait lure and it dive bombed this lure thing that I was swinging around, hit this lure at like 200 km/h. I didn't let go of it in time and it tore this string out of my hand and it was like it was attached to a train. Absolutely astonishing power and speed in such a tiny creature.

[@ADMNtek]

When it comes to merch I always prefer to see the creator wear it rather than some model.

[@ahmadgierdien191]

genuinely so impressed by that microwave SFX

[@Saber170292]

I can't remember if it was one of your videos or something I just watched years ago but it's the same with the Japanese bullet train, it's an amalgamation of aspects from different birds. Main one being the kingfisher for changes in air resistance. Always thought that was cool

[@robertlincourt8422]

I enjoyed this episode even more than I normally do

[@DorifutoRabbit]

I love the footage I saw in a documentary, filmed in Manhattan where they hunt pigeons, I forget the documentary but it was incredible to see

[@georgeattfield9824]

Glad I'm not the only person who remembers Animal Games ( made by the BBC for the 2004 Olympics)

[@psyclone2482]

Some speedy tiny dinosaurs

[@dcbandit]

I'd love to see weird scenarios for selling shirts! I don't ordinarily go out of my way to buy shirts, but I think that would make me do it.

[@kyledadumb4354]

Karl you are one of the few people who I have seen that can do the hum whistle! I love freaking people out with it hehehe

[@kai_surfs7701]

hearing "many years ago now" was a lot to comprehend

[@cloudread1k]

i like how the first minute of the video could be a big game of "what is behind the desk!" i think i got like 2 things right and only becous i know how hard it is to work with computers without headphones and memory cards.

[@captainhawk564]

I've been hum whistling for years and this is the first time I've ever seen anyone else able to do it

[@justinbellotti7838]

I believe that for golf, inside the golf ball is a RFID chip that allows the camera, wich is automatic, to follow the ball. I also believe that other sports do, or at least dabble with the same tech. With animals, it would be easy to use the same tech on the Geotag they already have... Most of the time.

[@uncleslappie9608]

I actually have a tree in my yard that Peregrine Falcons have taken to nesting in. Over the last 2 years I have had to catch denested baby falcons and hand them off to wild life rescue. I'd leave them alone but we have a bunch of cats in our neighborhood that would kill them in no time.

[@jarrettatkins3062]

"Tiny feathered meat bullet" broke me

[@wolfheartdarnell324]

Of all the things that Karl showed us as being behind that desk, why do I find the coffee maker the hardest to believe?

[@spaceninja1252]

I am now gonna impress everyone at work tomorrow with my awesome microwave impression. I've learned so much cool shit from yalls channel but this is by far the most important thing.

[@fellowblu2723]

i have never known that karl was hiding his whole set up behind him

[@hurricanev6]

I really have a problem with scaling general feats of insects to larger animals. I mean, I'm sure there are some exceptions, but if you were to scale a flea up to the size it would need to be to hit that 4 mile (or whatever it is) jump height, it would likely blow itself apart with the force needed to propel its weight that high, nevermind the landing would crack it open like an egg. Sure they're fast and powerful, but that's not hard when you weigh less than a hair.

[@thebelx89]

The scientifically, The Falcon Punch is a real thing…

[@justinbellotti7838]

Hell yeah, it would be cool if the advertising scenarios told a story, so to get the ending we need to see all the ads. Haha, or do one a day or one a week with some type of satisfying ending with cliffhangers in between.

[@tenkai3839]

I was asleep on the couch and woke up after a spider lowered itself into my mouth, I didn't swallow it but it scared the hell out of me. Now I try to keep my mouth closed when falling asleep.

[@drakeking6745]

"Centepede that's like 8 feet long" Arthropleura.

[@ariesforce1988]

Sooo basically.... FAL-CONE PAWNCH!!

[@sh10099]

I’d love it! Make your guys advertising your own, hope more livestreams are on the way can’t afford to make a meet up 😂

[@codyanderson5467]

Tiny Feathered Meat Bullet, would be a hell of a band name

[@andresmejia4409]

Peregrine falcons literally perform a falcon punch when divebombing their prey

[@kowalski2933]

The way it just fell into my hand

[@durk5331]

The best thing is, Peregrine Falcons kill their prey by Punching Them.... so you have this thing dive bombing at 240 mph with near flawless maneuverability that then Punches its prey, its the Literal Falcon Punch! >.>

[@Muddflud]

I was sat taking one of my GCSE's in the main hall when all of a sudden *thud*, Pidgeon snapped its neck on impact but flapped for quite a while.

[@robynroyale5823]

I tried the microwave whistles and my cat looked at me like 'tf did you just call me?!'

[@davecal1991]

I learned a new skill with that whistle hum. Cool!

[@BronzeJamo90]

Holy shit, just found out you can whistle and hum at the same time and it's mad

[@---l---]

The skeleton always makes me think of Horrible histories

[@1Jamesinator]

"Tiny feathered meat bullet". That comment sent my sides into orbit.

[@LadyLagsalot]

Those accident ads sounds awesome!

[@toxicara]

The Animalympics was a 1980's film... I haven't thought about that in years and don't know the 2004 one mentioned in the editors notes.

[@reddeath105]

if you think all tarantulas are slow. I think you should look up the Singapore Blue tarantula. my family came home with one thinking they were getting a nice easy tarantula to raise. They were very mistaken.

[@jackhanlon2897]

I don’t know if this is a good idea, but I think it's funny if you get all of the Murch that you have to wear sit around a table like you're drinking at a bar and in the first picture you having a good time the second picture you're all a bit drunk and rowdy and the third picture is of drunk brawl. I'd buy the shirts. I'm even thinking about purchasing a big Wanger shirt because Karl is just styling with that have dab point.

[@ecurps1]

Imagining one of the bombing through a window and leaving a bird-shaped hole in it. X3

[@doctorleak5312]

My guess is when it's dive bombing it has more focus then when flying

[@isaaco5679]

I saw a story of a duck hunter that, while bending over to pick up a duck, got hit in the back by a falcon. It stunned the bird and knocked the man into the ground and the air from his lungs.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

Great video, very interesting but I'm mildly freaked out by how much Nisha's voice in the background sounds like mine

[@EileenGallia]

THESE ARE MY FAVORITE BIRDS.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

Peregrine Falcons, the F-14 Tomcat of the Animal Kingdom.

[@Americanbadashh]

14:00 Thanks for the tip Karl

[@justdontcare2698]

well that animal olympics thing sort of happens all the time in australia because on the abc me network the have a program that i believe is called Animal Fights where they compare animals in different situations and declare a winner

[@efthymis_mc34]

Its maneuverability at high speed probably has to do with the aerodynamic forces increasing relative to the square of the velocity. Say for example, if it's travelling at 50kph and sticks out a wing, the drag on that wing is (arbitrary number for the sake of the example) 10N, the drag creating a torque that will make the bird turn. At 100kph, the drag won't stay the same, neither will it double with the velocity, but rather quadruple to 40N. At 200kph it will be 160N, and so on. A similar effect can be seen in high downforce race cars, which are also more maneuverable at higher speeds, obviously up to the point where the tyres start losing grip.

[@Generic_661]

I would love to see a bts of making an "injury incoming" merch shoot

[@tacticalwaffle2520]

that merch idea would be sick

[@contentdenied]

Huntsman spiders are awesome if you don't spook them, gentle giants.

[@RebornPrince923]

I've never met anyone else that could hum and whistle at the same time.

[@awesomeocelot7475]

I don’t get why the perigrin falcon is counted since it’s literally just slightly controlled falling…..

[@Putingy]

12:05 You could do the jojo pointing pose.

[@mind.hemorrhage]

TIL I can whistle and hum at the same time and our 2 yr old thinks it’s the most hilarious thing ever. I’ve been forced to make this sound the entire duration of the video. 🥲 Thanks, Karl…

[@SpeedyTubaGuy]

Suzuki named the Hayabusa after the falcon both because of it's insane speed and the fact that Peregrine falcons will hunt Blackbirds (Honda's fastest bike at the time was the Blackbird)

[@gerrittwesselink1147]

If I had to be a bird for a day it would probably be a Peregrin Falcon.

[@cappinjocj9316]

That has to be one of the most professionally unprofessional starts to a vid I’ve ever seen. 😂 Never change guys, it’s brilliant.

[@westinturism9572]

A clothing line up like you describe sound amazing!!!!

[@lucassevey5989]

Pulls out a declaration of independence "what do I have this piece of shit for"

[@lordmaddrox]

I had a falcon fly into a window christmas morning and snapped its neck , i had no idea what had happend cause the sound was so loud it woke me up , i opend the front door to see and i turned the corner and all i saw was a pair of claws sticking up at me , scared the sht outta me . Once i calmed down i looked again and saw what happend , we had a windchime with a ceramic bird on top that was on the ground then. It dove to catch that bird but went into the window after , window didnt break thankfully tho