The cheetah is the fastest bastard in the world.
In pursuit of the victim, they reach speeds of up to 130 km/h, accelerating to 75 km/h in 2 seconds. A cheetah jumps 6-8 m long and takes less than 0.5 seconds for each jump
The external appearance of the cheetah reminds a hound with long legs, a small cat's face and a long narrow tail. The cheetahs are used as a balancer during the race. The corpse is fried, the back is curved, the muscles are well developed. The wool looks like the wool of smooth wool dogs. The fangs are small, the jaws are unstable. The claws are long, sharp, not astringent, so cheetahs cannot climb trees. The feet are wide, with hard skin.
Habitat: Africa, India, Frontal and Central Asia.
The leading tone is golden-yellow, snow-white belly. Dark spots are scattered over the body. Dark stripes lie on the face (from the ends of the eye to the mouth).
Size: body length varies between 115-140 cm, debt 65-90 cm, height in the hill up to 79 cm.
Weight: male 43 kg on average, female 38 kg.
Life expectancy: captive up to 17-20 years, natural up to 8-10 years.
Sounds made by the cheetah are quite similar to a domestic cat. When the animal in a good location of the spirit it rumbles - "wow" and "yum-yum". In case he's worried about something, he publishes a rather low "i-hee, i-hee". Being irritated, animals growl, growl, snap their teeth and snort.
Frightened kittens whistle quickly and piercingly.
Young and painful cheetahs are attacked and taken away from hyena, leopards and lions.
Hunting small ungulates (Thompson's gazelle, impala, veal wrath), hares and birds. In zoos it absorbs up to 3.5 kg of meat per day.
The cheetah leads a daily life. He hunts for the day or in the twilight, chasing prey, not from ambush, sneaking up to the prey from the leeward side at 30 m, making a quick breakthrough. Often waits for prey at a watering hole. Cheetahs hunt alone.
The victim is knocked down by the blow of his paw, and then suffocated, grabbing her throat. As a rule, the animal chooses a weak victim, for example, hunting gazelles within 70% of all the creep ends successfully. Vision is sharp.
When running, it is pushed off with front and back legs, which allows to develop speed up to 110 km/h and to quickly replace the purpose of running. At this speed, the cheetah jumps up to 6 m!
Has the ability to make up for the need for water, drinking blood or urine of its own victims, eats juicy delicious melons.
Rest under trees or on low horizontal branches.
Lives in pairs or alone. The cubs of one female, having grown up and left her mother, make similar groups, which are saved up to 6 months. When females are filled within 2 years, they leave the group. Males still live together for some time. The size of the plot is up to 150 km2.
It forms pairs during the breeding season. Later on, the male leaves the female and does not perceive the role in breeding.
The female cheetah does not organize a lair, but disposes of it in thick bushes or thickets of the highest grass, less frequently in the thrown lair of another animal.
A female gives birth to 2-5 blind kittens. Newborn kittens without spots (they are noticed later). Eyes open for 10 days. Kittens are already in the footsteps of their own mother at 5-6 weeks of age. The mother actively defends her own cubs and in the 1st moon of their life every day transfers from space to space in order to protect them from enemies.
The cubs up to 10-15 months old have all chances to involve the claws like kittens, later the claws are not drawn in. Lactation lasts up to 3 months.
The coat is black, on the back stretches a thick, luxurious ashy color. At the age of 2 months it is converted into a mane. Unchangeable teeth start to grow by 9 months. Eating prey together with your mother runs quite peacefully, without discord and skirmishes.
Only 11% of kittens live to 4 months, 4-5,5% - to 14 months.
Young cheetahs stay with their mother for up to 1.5 years, and then leave her.
People are not attacked by cheetahs. He is just tamed and trained, he has a smooth and peaceful character. In India and Iran with hand cheetahs hunted antelope.
Cheetah is a rather rare and disappearing animal. The number of the population is in the range of 8-10 thousand individuals.
The mortality rate is quite high: from birth to puberty it varies between 90 and 98%.
The main threats to the image are the development of desert areas and plowing of territories, direct persecution by poachers.