Saharan Silver Ant The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) is a species of insect that lives in the Sahara Desert. It is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a velocity of 855 millimetres per second (over 1.9 miles per hour or 3.1 kilometres per hour). It can travel a length 108 times its own body length per second, a feat topped only by two other creatures, the Australian tiger beetle Cicindela eburneola and the California coastal mite Paratarsotomus macropalpis. This is nearly the walking pace of a human being, and compared to its body size would correspond to a speed of about 200 m/s (720 km/h) for a 180 cm (6 ft) tall human runner.
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Tyla hits 29 million Spotify monthly listeners, the highest for an African female Artiste ever.
Her song, Water has gone Silver in the UK (200,000 units), Gold in Australia (35,000 units) and Gold in New Zealand (15,000 units).
It has peaked at #1 in New Zealand, #1 in Suriname, #4 in UAE, #4 in the UK, #5 in Greece, #5 in South Africa, #6 in Australia, #6 in Ireland, #6 in The Netherlands, #8 in The Philippines, #9 in Luxembourg, #10 in USA, #10 in Denmark, #10 in Sweden, #11 in Switzerland, #13 in Nigeria, #14 in Singapore, #14 in Iceland, #14 in Latvia, #14 in Norway, #14 in Lithuania, #15 in Portugal, #22 in France, #23 in Canada, #25 in Belgium, #25 in Germany, #26 in Croatia, #46 in Austria, #57 in Slovakia, #59 in Brazil and #83 in Poland.