Cheetah

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Food The cheetah is a carnivorous and a variety of small animals. The cheetah unlike most cats are diurnal or hunt during sunrise and at dusk. cheetah uses sight rather than smell hunts countryside and top of tree limbs. A cheetah usually stalks its prey within 50yards before it attacks it. A full sprint can usually last for about 1 minute. If the cheetah get its prey it will suffocate it by clamping the animals windpipe. Cheetah eat quickly for it challenged it will most likely lose. Social Behavior ﻿ Males do not trivial solo very often. Often 2 to 3 cheetah males will stay together and are often are brothers.The small group will and hunt and live together for life and usually claim large areas. The average size that the male cheetahs cover is 14.4 aquare miles. Young cheetahs seek out a area from their parents. Sometimes as far as 300 miles. A female raises her cubs alone since the adult males. An average females home extend to be 322 square miles. History  The Cheetah has been around for about 4,000,000 years, long before other big cats. The oldest fossils of a cheetah is in Texas,Nevada, and Wyoming. Cheetahs are common throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America until the end of the last ice age. Around that time the cheetahs in North America and Europe,Asia, and Africa had vanished Reproduction A female cheetah can give birth to 1-6 clubs in a litter. The cubs are born in long grass. Every few days the mother moves her cubs to a new area to keep away frompredators such as lions and hyenas. Physical Description A cheetah is built like a gray hound than cats. Cheetahs are adapted for short brief and intense burst of speed. They have small head and really thin bodies. They have a yellow or golden looking fur with many black spots. A cheetah can grow up to four to four and half feet long not including their 30 inch tail. They can weigh from 75 all the way up to 145 pounds. They stand two or three feet tall at the shoulder. Extra Information In 1900 the cheetah was put onto the Endangered Spices list. There is 8,000 to 10,000 wild cheetahs. Many cheetahs are shot ilegally for livestock and prey. Make sure that we stop people from hunting the chteehas. Endangered Species Act﻿ The Endangered Species Act was passed by Congress in 1973. The law requires that all agencies, with any encounterment with fish and U.S wildlife. To protect Endanger species from becoming extinct.We propose that cheetahs should be put into shelters or let people with licenses have them as a pet until their population is back to normal. [|Cheetah] [|Cheetah 2] [|Cheetah3]