Cheetah is a carnivorous, wild animal, with black spotted body and yellowish fur with long tail ...mostly found in sub Sahara Africa, is a distinctive member of the cat family slightly smaller than leopard but with longer limbs and a smaller head also credited, record and known with being the fastest land/terrestrial animal because it can reach a 70m/h, it weigh 70-130 pounds, with average height is 24-32 inches cheetah is a diurnal animal meaning that they active during the day which avoid competition for foods from its enemies i.e hyena and lion. They have a deep,narrow chest and lungs and wide nostrils, A cheetah has long with slender body
Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Felidae
- Genus: Acynonix
- Species: jubatus
Facts about cheetah
- Unlike cat their claw do not retract
- Their male are more social, they spend most of their life in a group called coalition.
Diet and behaviour
when it comes to eating, cheetah prefer to eat/hunt immature zebra, rabbit and gazelle(antelope)
Reproduction
like other animal female cheetah also come to heat and their mating period is throughout the year, they were refers as ''polyestrous'' meaning that they comes into heat more than one time in a year, it ovulate every three to four months until it get impregnated, and it take cheetah a ninety days to give birth to young one.
during the time of birth female cheetah will settle in a den and give birth to 3-4 cub 'young cheetah is known as cub'
Habitat
cheetah is mostly found in sub Sahara Africa, they like dry open grassland
where they can run very fast to kill prey
Cubs of cheetah description
At birth cub is blind and later open eyes after 5-8days and it will live as much as 16-18months before been independent. despite the fact that they are been born blind they still have a beautiful looks ..
cheetah life span is 10-12 years but high mortality is high among the cubs..
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