14 Facts About Cheetah

Cheetah is a large cat native to Africa and central Iran.

Cheetah cubs are highly vulnerable to predation by other large carnivores such as hyenas and lions.

Cheetah occurs in a variety of habitats such as savannahs in the Serengeti, arid mountain ranges in the Sahara and hilly desert terrain in Iran.

Cheetah'storically ranging throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa and extending eastward into the Middle East and to central India, the cheetah is distributed mainly in small, fragmented populations in central Iran and southern, eastern and northwestern Africa.

Cheetah suggested it could be a cross between a leopard and a cheetah.

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Cheetah is a lightly built, spotted cat characterised by a small rounded head, a short snout, black tear-like facial streaks, a deep chest, long thin legs and a long tail.

Cheetah is superficially similar to the leopard, but the leopard has rosettes instead of spots and lacks tear streaks.

Cheetah resembles the smaller cats in cranial features, and in having a long and flexible spine, as opposed to the stiff and short one in other large felids.

Cheetah is a vocal felid with a broad repertoire of calls and sounds; the acoustic features and the use of many of these have been studied in detail.

Cheetah occurs mostly in eastern and southern Africa; its presence in Asia is limited to the central deserts of Iran, though there have been unconfirmed reports of sightings in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan in the last few decades.

Cheetah is threatened by several factors, like habitat loss and fragmentation of populations.

Cheetah has been classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN; it is listed under AppendixI of the CMS and AppendixI of CITES.

Cheetah has been widely portrayed in a variety of artistic works.

Bill Thomas Cheetah American racing car, a Chevrolet-based coupe first designed and driven in 1963, was an attempt to challenge Carroll Shelby's Shelby Cobra in American sports car competition of the 1960s.