Cheetahs are known for their incredible speed, able to reach 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. Their population has declined dramatically, with only around 7,500 adults remaining in the wild due to loss of habitat and being pursued by hunters. Conservation efforts are underway to protect the last remaining cheetah populations in Africa and Asia, where they are endangered.

1. CHEETAH

2. Aflah Mahesa Agni (01)
Carmelia Nabila
Permatasari (04)
Jihan Nur Sinta (08)
Nur Fa’iza Raihanah Masita
(13)

3. General Statement

4. A spotted, slender, sleek, graceful, swift
predator. Fast runner animal that hunts for
its food, on the run. This particular cat is a
diurnal hunter, which means that it hunts
primarily during the day. It is because it uses
its incredible running ability to catch and to
see what it is running after.

5. Cheetahs are created with speed. They can
accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds
and can reach 65 mph when chasing their
favourite antelope prey. When running,
cheetahs use their tail to steer, like a rudder
for a boat. Cheetahs are the only big cat that
can turn in mid-air while sprinting. Their life
span are around 10 to 20 years.

6. Cheetah’s diet

7. Cheetah’s diet mainly consist of mammals
meat, but sometimes they also consume
certain types of birds. Cheetahs usually
target the young of larger animals. Cheetahs
feed on large antelopes such as kudus,
oryxes, roans, and harbeests as well as
smaller antelopes such as impalas, gazelles,
and springboks.

8. Cheetahs often trip and knock down their
prey, then try to bite of the neck of its prey
to cut off the air supply. Once the target die,
they will drag it to an isolated area and eat it
as fast as possible to drop the risk of being
found by other predators.

9. As for Asiatic cheetahs, they prey on
gazelles, wild goat, sheep and hare in the
arid region of Iran, the Kavir Desert.
Sometime they also hunt domestic livestock
because of scarcity, and it is also one of the
reason why Asian cheetahs are now
endangered.

10. Cheetah IS HUNTING the prey

11. population

12. In a 1900 cencus, the cheetahs population was
around 100.000. Today, only 9000 remain in
Africa. Their population decreased 30% over
the last 18 years, only 7500 adults remain in the
wild. With less prey and habitat, and pursued by
hunters, the cheetahs are at a high risk of
axtinction.

13. Cheetahs are mostly found in sub-
Saharan Africa and in eastern and
southern African parks. Some of
the animals can still be found in
southern Algeria, northern Niger
and Iran. They like dry, open
grasslands where they can pick up
speed to kill prey. Cheetahs
habitat is now only 25% of its
former size.
HABITAT

15. TAKING CARE OF
THEIR YOUNGER

16. Cheetahs are very good mothers, caring for their
young until the cubs reach maturity, usually
between 2 and 3. Cheetahs are ordinarily solitary
animals, preferring to venture about their own
unless caring for cubs. Cheetah cubs suckle their
mother for up to 3 months but will begin to eat
some meat when they are as young as 3 weeks.
The mortality rate for cheetahs cubs in the wild is
about 70 percent, while it is only 20 percent for
those under human care. Approximately 50 to
75% of cubs die within a month.

17. CONSERVING CHEETAH IN ASIA AND

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In 2001, the Iranian government collaborated with
the Cheetah conservation Fund, the IUCN,
Phantera, United Nation Development
Programme (UNDP), and the Wildlife Conservation
Society on the Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah
Project (CACP) to protect the natural habitat of the
Asiatic cheetah and its prey, to ensure that
development projects do not hamper its survival,
and to highlight the plight of the Asiatic cheetah. Iran
declared 31 August as National Cheetah Day in 2006.

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The Range Wide Conservation Program for
Cheetah and African Wild Dogs (RWCP), the
brainchild of Sarah Durant and Rosie
Woodroffe (of the Zoological Society of
London), was started in 2007 with the
primary aim of ensuring better
conservation measures for the cheetah and
the wild dog .

20. Interactin
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Human
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History

21. The cheetah in general shows no hostility toward human beings,
probably due to its sociable nature. This might be a reason why the
cheetah can be easily tamed, as it has been since antiquity. During
the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), cheetahs were
common pet animals for the royalty, who decorated the animals
with beautiful collars and leashes. The earliest depiction of
cheetahs from eastern Asia dates back to the Tang Dynasty (7th to
10th centuries AD); paintings depict tethered cheetahs as well as
cheetahs mounted on horses. Chinese emperors would use
cheetahs, as well as caracals, as gifts.

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