What affects us affects cats
by Michael (London, UK) How fast can a cheetah run? This is a question that often arises because the cheetah is the fastest land animal on the planet. Sometimes a little bit of exaggeration can creep into the claims. The humble domestic cat can run at about 30 mph top speed. Photo by Malingering …
Endangered cheetah – photo © digitalART (artct45) modified slightly as allowed under the creative commons license. The black frame has been removed and the picture cropped top and bottom slightly. The image quality is reduced to make a smaller file size for faster loading. Nice photograph even when modified like this. Overview Why is …
This is a pie chart that shows the percentage of kills by the cheetah of “prey items” at the Kruger National Park in Africa. The sample size is 2,532. The source material is page 33 of Wild Cats Of The World by Mel and Fiona Sunquist ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77999-7 and the book’s source material is …
by Michael (London, UK) Baby Cheetah – greatly inbreed – photo by San Diego Shooter (Flickr) Yes, the sperm of a cheetah, the fastest land animal on the planet, is much worse than the sperm of the common domestic cat, the companion animal that you and I live with and from which we derive …
In this article about cheetah speed, I have used as a primary source of information, an academic research paper published in the Journal of Mammalogy 1959. This paper compares the running methods of the cheetah to the horse. Although I have not referred to all of this paper. The horse is a useful benchmark as …
Photograph ©copyright Garlyn – published under creative commons license — This is just a lovely picture of a lovely cat. Cheetah cubs have that look; pure innocence overlayed with the anticipation of a true and fantastically athletic hunter to come. It is a heady mix. This picture was taken by the Flickr photographer Garlyn (Flickr …
Overview The cheetah is known throughout the world as the fastest animal on land. The speed is perhaps somewhat exaggerated. My research indicats 64 mph max. The cheetah is inbred. There are other wildcats that are inbred: Siberian tiger to name one. The cheetah has been tamed and has a long history of thousands …
What is starkly apparent when working on this map is the rapidity of change of the cheetah geographic range, which is marked on the map above in red (as at 2009). And as expected it always becomes smaller. Wild Cats Of The World by Mel and Fiona Lunquist published in 2002, describes a range that …
