Yesterday I saw a documentary about cheetahs on channel 413 ( Nat Geo Wild) on my Star hub television box! Cheetahs are actually the fastest animal in the land. Its speed is 112km/hour and can stalk prey from 200 to 300 meters away. Its hunting speed is 64km/hours in sprint

The cheetahs are carnivores that means meat-eaters like me ! Their main are antelopes and gazelles. If their is no antelopes or gazelles they just another prey like elephants, rabbits and much more.

Cheetahs are covered in over 2000 black spots. They  weight from 21 to 72 kg , they are taller than the leopard but are shorter than the lion. Typically yellowish tan or  greyish white, the coat is uniformly covered with nearly 2,000 solid black spots. Did you know that greyish white are some zoo’s as they are endangered right now and has less than ten thousand in the world.  They are also mammals.

 

They also have cousins like the pumas, panthers, lions, leopards, tigers and much more.  They all are cousins as they all are cats and have fur. Did you know that many animals are white as there is a disease where the skin of the animal is white.

Did you know that the cheetahs nearest  cousins are the cougar and the jaguar.

A genome study concluded that cheetahs experienced two bottlenecks in their history, the first about 100,000 years ago and the second about 12,000 years ago, greatly lowering their genetic variability. These bottlenecks may have been associated with migrations across Asia and into Africa (with the current African population founded about 12,000 years ago), and/or with a depletion of prey species at the end.

The cheetahs lives at Cheetahs inhabit a variety of habitats – dry forests, scrub forests and savanna’s. they live in the African and Asian places.

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