A Michael Broad Blog
This is a free-to-use infographic describing the cheetah. It has to be very compact but the salient points are made. The cheetah is almost entirely built for speed. It is the way the cat has evolved. It’s talent and ability to catch prey is built around speed at up to around 70 mph (max) …
The cheetah is built for high speed over short distances. It is similar in size to the leopard but much slimmer and rangier. The cheetah has a deep chest and lanky legs. The tail is long for balance but about one half the body and head length. The background colour varies from “tawny to grayish-white to bright …
I provide accurate information on the average weights of male and female cheetahs in East and South West Africa.
Yes, cheetahs CAN (i.e. theoretically) be black but there aren’t any today, in my opinion. Black cheetahs have been recorded but they are extremely rare. White cheetahs have also been recorded but they are also very rare. Mel and Fiona Sunquist (Wild Cats of the World) rely on N. Wrogemann in Cheetah under the …
Do cheetahs’ claws retract? The answer is YES, the cheetah has retractile claws but (a) the cheetah has no claw sheath and the claws protrude beyond the fur and (b) it is incorrect to describe feline claws are ‘retractile’ as they are ‘protractile’.
Cheetahs have “a conspicuous black tear line [which] runs from the inner corner of the eye to the mouth” – Wild Cats of the World. The classic often repeated reason why this line exists is to help reduce the glare of the sun. In other words reflections from the cat’s fur into the eyes …
Perhaps the better question is: “were there white cheetahs?” because I had never heard of someone seeing a white cheetah these days until today (see below). Have you heard of modern day white cheetahs? If so please tell us. That said, both black and white cheetahs have been recorded. They are exceptionally rare it …
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 …
