Earle E. Williams
The cheetah
Jesse Arreola
Grade 7 Science
May 11 2015
I am going to tell you some basic facts about the cheetah. The cheetah lives in Africa mostly in the bottom of Africa there is around 7,000 cheetahs there. The cheetah is a mammal which means they eat animals. The cheetah is a carnivore it means they eat animals such like gazelles; wildebeest calves, impalas, and smaller hooted in their habitat. The cheetah’s fur helps the cheetah camouflage which helps allot by catching his prey. The species is now at parts of eastern, central, and South Africa with small populations found in southwest Asia. The cheetah is the fastest animal in the world; cheetahs could go up to 70 to 75 miles per hour in a small
amount of time. Supposedly the cheetah could beat a car in short amounts of time the cheetah could reach 60 miles per hour in 3 seconds. They see prey easily by their eyesight if they do see prey they run fast to capture it. But the cheetah’s fur helps them camouflage their surroundings; their fur helps them camouflage their surroundings so when a cheetah spots their prey the prey can’t spot the predator. Cheetahs have flat faces large noses helps the cheetahs inhale allot of air and when he chases his prey his nose helps him catch his prey without running out of breath. When the cheetah catches his prey then he kills it by grabbing their neck with their teeth and suffocate the animal the caught to death. The time that an animal dies is from the suffocation of the cheetah is around 5 minutes. I am now going to talk about their habitat and their reproduction, the cheetah is mostly now found in parks at East Africa. They could still be found in Algeria and Iran. The cheetah likes open grasslands that are dried for it could be easier to capture their prey. In their habitat, during the day the cheetah follows prey and also kills it. What the cheetahs does to capture its prey at their habitat is first they knock over the animal there going to kill then they suffocate it until it dies. Then the cheetah hides the dead body of the animal they killed. Sometimes hiding their food does not work because vultures usually take the body if they find it. The cheetah was meant to live in dry places because they only need a drink of water ever 3 to 4 days. In the reproduction of the cheetah, the cheetah could have up to 8 cubs. When the cubs are born the cheetah could weigh up to 5 pounds young cheetahs have allot of hair on top of their neck. Big male cheetahs are very social but they are very picky who they are with. Some groups of cheetahs are called coalitions which is when a bunch of brothers hang out in packs. Female cheetahs are loners because there by themselves and only spend time with their cubs. The average that a mother gives birth to cubs is 3. When the baby cheetahs called cubs are born they are very small. When the cubs are growing with the mom the mom teaches the cubs how to hunt and other stuff like how to drag a body after they kill a prey. Cubs will only stay with their parents for only a half to 2 years.
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