The Amazing Cheetah
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivore
Family: Felidae
Genus: Acinonyx
Species: Jubatus
Appearance
A Cheetah has a colour tan with black
spots.
They have long-teared shapeliness on
the each side of the bodies.
The tail is approximately 3 to 4 inches
in length.
The tails ends in a bushy white fluffy.
There skin colours yellow, tan, brown,
and black .
There skin type is fur is coarse.
A size of an cheetah is 115cm-136cm
and there weight is 40kg-65kg.
Habitats
Cheetahs might be fast however
the question that wild life
biologist asks, are they fast
enough to outrun extinction?
Today cheetahs are endaraged
species.
Like all spotted and stippled cats,
cheetahs have long under
pressure by the fur trade.
However over hunting is not the
principle problem facing
cheetahs.
Habits and Adaptation ll
 One of the cheetah’s adaptation,
its claws, help make it the fastest
running animal.
 The cheetah’s it catch its prey
which runs nearly as quickly to
escape this running machine.
 There are certain natural history
facts that seen to be common
knowledge.
 The elephant is the largest
animal, and most everyone
seems to know that the fastest
running animal on the planet in
the cheetah.
Habits and Adaptation l
A spotted, slender, sleek, graceful, swift, predator….
An animal that hunts for its food on the run.
This particular cat is a diurmal hunter, which means
that it hunts primarily during the day, why?
The Cheetahs uses its incredible running after.
It’s all about adaptation the means there re special
characteristics about each animal that help it live.
Habits and Adaptation lll
Cheetahs are built for speed.
They can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3-4
seconds and can reach 65 mph when their favorite
antelope prey.
Life Cycle l
 A newborn cheetahs remain hiders until they are So 6 weeks
old.
 During the next year, the young cubs learn life skills like
from their mom.
 They wean around 3 months old but they stay with their
mom until they are 1 and a half to 2 years old
 Cheetahs may live up to 17 years, with eight to 12 years
being.
Life Cycle ll
Female cheetahs live alone most of the time
except when raising their cubs.
They associate with other cheetahs only when
mating, which begins at 21 or 22 months of age.
While cheetahs can copulate at any time, they
usually do so in the dry season.
After three months at the beginning of the wet
season.
Female cheetahs give births to three cubs on
average
Did you know….. Part l
their speed for a few minutes before thy are
too tired to continue.
Cheetah are smaller than other members of
the big cat family, weighing only 45-60 The
cheetahs is the fastest animal in the world.
They can reach top speed of round 113 km in
per hour.
A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 113 km in
just a few seconds.
Cheetah are extremely fast how ever they
five quickly and can only keep up kilogram.
Did you know…. Part ll
A cheetah has amazing eyesight during the
day and can spot prey 5 km away.
Cheetah cannot climb trees and have pour
night vision.
Cheetahs only need to drink for three to four
days.
While lions and leopards usually do their
hunting at night, cheetahs hunt for food
during the day.
Did you know….lll
Cheetah are the only big cat that cannot roar.
They can purr tough and usually purr most
loudly when they grooming or sitting near
cheetah.
Bibliography
www.defeder.org/cheeth/basicfoods.
www.ask.com
www.lion.org/cheetah.html
www.felineconservation.org/cheetah.html
www.A-Zanimal.com/animals/cheetah
www.wikipedia.com