What is the Fastest Reaction Time in an Animal?

[Joe Elliott]

The goat that was shot through the brain in the 1948 U. S. Army film reacted, that is started to move its legs, 40 milliseconds after the impact of the bullet.
 
Question:

What is the Fastest Reaction Time in an Animal?

Let us limit our discussion to terrestrial mammals, of 50 or more pounds. And I’m not interested in the time it takes “to blink an eye”, but the time to start moving a leg, an arm, a limb.

Are there other such reaction times as fast as 40 milliseconds? If so, what triggers the reaction. Sight? Sound?

Are the fastest reaction times achieved in an animal a result of a bullet through the brain?

In anyone can find as fast, or a faster, reaction time, please provide a link to this information.

[Gary Craig]

This is off topic.

JFK wasn't a animal.

[Gerry Down]

This is off topic.

JFK wasn't a animal.

An

[Joe Elliott]

This is off topic.

JFK wasn't a animal.

Wrong. We are all animals.

But you dodge the question.

Can anyone come up with a reaction as fast as 40 milliseconds?

[Bill Chapman]

This is off topic.

JFK wasn't a animal.

The goat was

[Michael T. Griffith]

The goat that was shot through the brain in the 1948 U. S. Army film reacted, that is started to move its legs, 40 milliseconds after the impact of the bullet.
 
Question:

What is the Fastest Reaction Time in an Animal?

Let us limit our discussion to terrestrial mammals, of 50 or more pounds. And I’m not interested in the time it takes “to blink an eye”, but the time to start moving a leg, an arm, a limb.

Are there other such reaction times as fast as 40 milliseconds? If so, what triggers the reaction. Sight? Sound?

Are the fastest reaction times achieved in an animal a result of a bullet through the brain?

In anyone can find as fast, or a faster, reaction time, please provide a link to this information.

Gosh, how many times do people have to point out to you that JFK's headshot reaction looks nothing like the goat's reaction in the goat film? Kennedy's limbs don't splay after the headshot--his head starts to move backward first, and then his shoulders move backward, and then he goes limp. His arms never splay. A fraction of a second after bullet impact, he goes limp. Can you just not see this?

[Bill Chapman]

Gosh, how many times do people have to point out to you that JFK's headshot reaction looks nothing like the goat's reaction in the goat film? Kennedy's limbs don't splay after the headshot--his head starts to move backward first, and then his shoulders move backward, and then he goes limp. His arms never splay. A fraction of a second after bullet impact, he goes limp. Can you just not see this?

I read somewhere that Kennedy's feet were jammed so tightly under the jump seat in front of him that they had a hell of a time getting him out of the limo. IIRC, somebody said something about having to take at least one shoe off.

Seems like some sort of biomechanical reaction.