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Skydiving with a peregrine–awesome video from National Geographic

imageOK – so we all know that peregrine falcons are awesome predators, and that in a stoop they are the fastest living thing on earth.

But just how fast is fast… and what exactly does a stooping peregrine look like up close and personal, in slow motion?

One US scientist took a novel approach to finding out. He jumped out of a plane and went into freefall with a lure and a trained peregrine and filmed it in mid stoop.

Check out this amazing video from the National Geographic team, and you can but marvel at the peregrines aerial prowess – truly the most awe inspiring aerial predator of them all.

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