cheetahs


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1)They are capable of hurting people. 2)They are wild animals. 3)The Cheetahs are in a endanger species. 4)They don't breath very well in captivities. 5)Only 12% of the cheetahs reproduced. 6)There is a higher chance so they can reproduce. 7)They are looking for a breeding attitude so they can take her to the emergency's room. 8)One of the vocalization that is called student, barking, and chirping. 9)The zoos worker see if they are ready to breed or not. 10)Cheetahs are unlike other big cats. 11)Other cats do not run as fast as the cheetah. 12)The big cat stretches in the same way as the small normal cat. 13)Cheetahs are becoming very very rare. 14)The cheetahs are protected by law. 15) They are still killed by poachers for their warm fur. 16)Cheetahs used to be found in India. 17)They are throughout Africa, but today the main population lives in Namibia and Zimbabwe. 18)The cheetahs hunt by day and usually drags its kill into bushes so that cannot be driven away from its meal. 19)The mother cheetahs usually gives birth to one or eight cubs. 20)Small head with short, rounded ears. 21)Supple, muscular back. 22)Powerful hindquarters. 23)The striped tail is more than half the length of the head to the body. 24)Long slender legs. 25)Narrow dog like paws. 26)Like a dog ,the cheetah extends its claws while it is running ,to get a good grip on the ground. 27)The claws are fairly blunt,only slightly curved and very strong. 28)The cheetah makes kinda twee twee sound like a bird. 29) Height: 30+ inches at shoulder. 30)  Weight: 69-140 lbs. 31)  B ody length: 4 feet .    32) Tail length: 28.5 inches. 33)78 to 1.85 inches. 34) Male cheetahs are slightly larger than females and have a slightly bigger head. 35) Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 40 miles per hour in three strides and to full speed of 70 miles per hour in seconds. 36)At two points in the stride,no feet touch the ground. 37)They can go 60 to 150 breaths per minute. 38)They can run to 400 to 600 yards. 39) Its body is narrow, lightweight with long, slender feet and legs. 40) More than 100,000 cheetahs were found in at least 44 countries throughout Africa and Asia. Today the species is extinct from +20 counties. 41)Cheetahs are endanger because of loss a habitat due to farming and building,being killed by farmers who see them as a treat to their animals and illegal hunting. 42)Cheetahs have existed on earth for at least 3 to 4 million years. That is longer than any other big cat alive today. 43)Through the dating of fossil remains,it appears that the cheetah originated in the U.S, in the present day states of Nevada,Texas and Wyoming. 44)The first 18 months of a cubs life is spent learning how to hunt prey and avoid predators. 45)At 18 months,Mother cheetah's leave her cubs but the cubs stay together as a sibling group until they are about 2 years old. 46)At 2 years old,sibling groups split. The males stay together for life but the females go off on their own. 47)The male is slightly bigger than the female. 48)It's the world's fastest land mammal reaching speed of 70 miles per hour. 49)They tend to run from danger rather than fight. 50)Cheetahs are often mistaken for leopards but you can tell cheetahs apart by the bushy white ends of their tails and the long teardrop-shaped lines on each side of the nose that go from the corner of its eyes to its mouth. 51)At top speed, a cheetah takes about 3 strides per second. 52)Several adaptations make the cheetah specialized for speed including a powerful heart, over sized liver and large, strong arteries. 53)It can faster that all other animals. 54)Its Swahili name is Duma. 55)Its scientific name is Acinonyx Jubatus. 56)It lives on open plains partially open savannas. 57)It normally eats small antelopes but also eats small mammals like birds. It can catch wildebeests and zebras,too if hunting together. 58)Its hunted by eagles,humans,hyenas and lions. 59)Unlike most other big cats, the cheetah usually hunts during daylight, preferring early morning or early evening. 60)Cheetahs purr,hiss,whine and growl. 61)Once a cheetah closes in,it knocks the prey down to the ground with its paws and suffocates the animal with a bit to the neck. 62)The cheetah lives to 10 or 12 years. 63)The cheetah gets as close to the prey as possible, then in a burst of speed tries to outrun its quarry. 64)At times a male will accompany a female for a short while after mating, but most often the female is alone or with her cubs. 65) They are suckled for 2 to 3 months but begin to eat meat as early as 3 week. 66)A shy creature that roams widely, the cheetah is not seen as easily as some other cats. 67)Never numerous, cheetahs have become extinct in many areas, principally due to shriking habitats. 68)In some areas 50 to 75 percent of all cheetah cubs died before 3 months. 69)The name cheetah comes from an Indian word meaning "spotted one." 70)Cheetahs were so popular that Akbar the great of India was said to have kept a stable of about 1,000. 71)Size length: female is 1.5m-1.8m(5ft-6ft) male is 1.8m-2.1m(6ft-7ft). 72)Gestatation Period: 90-95 days. 73)Cubs Per Little:(usually 2-3 cubs)cubs are born blinded and weigh 1.5-2lbs. 18-26 month interval. 74)Social structure:solitary except during mating season. Male territory may sometimes overlap. 75)Territory size:193km (120 miles). 76)76)Popular (wild):12,000. 77)Captive (SSP):1,400 in captive Breeding program or previously taken from the wild. 78)The king cheetah is extremely rare, regal and shrikingly beautiful animal. 79)Cheetahs are carnivorous. 80)All cheetahs alive today appear to be as closely related as identical twins. 81)Cheetahs were common throughout Asia,Africa, Europe and North America until the end of the last ice age. 82)There are several organization devoted to saving the cheetahs including the cheetahs conservation fund and Dewildt cheetah. 83)90% of cubs are killed by predators with in the first few weeks of their lives. 84)If they make it to adulthood,there is 50% chance that another predator will steal every kill they make. 85)Cheetahs don't breed well in captivity making it hard to help increase their population. 86)There are six sub species of the cheetah. 87)Cheetahs have excellent eye sight which help them help prey. 88)A cheetah can full sprint for about 20 seconds and almost never exceed 1 full minute. 89)Cheetah Cubs follow their mother on hunt at 6 weeks old. 90)Cheetah cubs begin hunting with their mother at 6 months. On these hunts the months capture live prey for them to practice killing. 91)91)Many people fear predators, especially big cats such as the lion,cheetah,and the Leopard. 92)The fur of newborn cubs is dark and the spots are blended together and barely visible. 93)During the first few weeks of life,a thick yellowish-gray coat,called a mantle,grow along the cubs back. 94)The mantle begin to disappear at about three months old, but the last traces of it, in the form of small mane, are still present at over two years of age. 95)Today the species is extinct from +20 countries and between 9,000 to 12,000 animals remain, found mostly in small-pocketed population in 24 to 26 countries in Africa and +200 in Iran. 96)96)Prior to the 20th century, cheetahs were widely distributed throughout Africa and Asia, and were originally found in all suitable habitats from the cape of good Hope to the Mediterranean, throughout the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, from Israel to India, and through the southern provinces of the Soviet Union. 97)Today, the Asian cheetah is nearly extinct,due to a decline of available habitat and prey. 98)The species was declared extinct in India in 1952, and the last reported cheetah was seen in Israel in 1956. 99)Free-ranging cheetahs still inhabit a broad section of Africa, including areas of North Africa, the Sahel, East Africa, and southern Africa. 100)Viable population may be found less than half of the countries where cheetahs still extinct.

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50 Facts

1)me: what do you think they look like? you: well they are yellow with black dots on them. 2) me: what do you think they eat? you: well they eat meat they eat antelope,baby buffalo, baby deer, hare, and all that kind of stuff. 3)me: how fast do you think they run? you: about 70 miles per hour. 4)me: how many dots do think they have? you: I think about 300 or 500 I think. 5)me: how much do you think they eat. you: I think about 1 meal a day. 6)me: how many cubs do they have? you: I think they have 3 or 4 cubs. 7)me: how long are their tails? you: about 10 inches long. 8)me: how old can they get when they die? you: I think about 10 or 12 years. 9)me: how many rings do they have on their tails? you: I don't know I think 20. 10)me: how many dots do a king cheetah has? you: I think 500? 11)me: how old can a king cheetah gets when they die? you: I think about 9 or 10 years old. 12)me: how long are they? you: I think 9 inches. 13)me: how much do they weigh? you: about 69-140 lbs. 14)me: how tall are are? you: about 4.3 or 4.5 15)me: how many teeth do they have? you: I think about 32 or more. 16)me: are they an a Endanger Species? you: no I don't think so? 17)me: are they a mammal a reptile or a human? you: they are a mammal because they eat meat. 18)me: do they have to leave their cubs or do they stay with her cubs???? you: when they grow up they leave their cubs but when they are small they stay with their cubs. 19) me: how many months can a cub get? you: about 3 to 4 months. 20)me: how do they run so fast? you:I have no idea? 21)me: why are they named the cheetahs? you:because they run fast and they are yellow with black dots on them. 22)me: why do they climb trees? you:so if they caught an animal they would have to climb a tree so the other animals like the lion wont get their food. 23)me: why do you think that cheetahs should be killed so they don't need to kill people anymore? you:well i don't want the cheetahs to be killed anymore because they don't eat people that much anymore. 24)me: what do they eat? Do they eat people,animals or them selves? you: well they eat animals. 25)me:how do they feel when they run? you:i have now idea. 26)me: what do they sound like? you:a bird sound. 27)me:how do they eat? you:they eat wild. 28)me:do they hibernate? you:i think so? 29)me:what do they drink? you:water. 30)me: how many cubs can they have? you:3 to 4. 31)me:do they die when they are born? you:no. 32)me:how many times do they have cubs? you:once a month. 33)me:do they have lots of boys or lots of girls? you:i think both. 34)me:do they have lots of cubs or very few of cubs? you:very few. 35)me:do they work or be lazy all the time? you:they work. 36)me:do they go swimming or fishing or do they just be animals all day long? you:they be animals all day long. 37):me:do they go to school to learn there or do they learn from their parents? you:they learn from their parents. 38)me:do they read books? you:no. 39)me:do they brush they're hare? you:no but they take their self baths. 40)me:do they brush they're teeth? you:no they are all ready healthy. 41)me:do they work on computers? you:no. 42)me:do they go places? you:yes in the wild. 43)me:do they have a job? you:no but they do work in the wild. 44)me:do they watch T.V.? you:no. 45)me:do they write stuff? you:no. 46)me:do they ware paints? you:no. 47)me:do they ware T-shirts? you:no. 48)me:do they ware shoes? you:no but they have paws. 49)me:do they paint stuff? you:no. 50)me:do they make stuff? you:no but they do hunt stuff. By Nickleback.


 * The look of the cheetahs face**

The look of the cheetahs face is if he or she gets mad they hiss growl that means there is something coming after it and when it is really hungry it will and I'm maybe sure it will come after you or me and we do not want that happening. some people think that the cheetahs are related to the saber tooth tiger long long ago some people say they arnt related to the saber tooth tiger but most people do and I think that is true to. By Nickleback.