Cheetah

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Cheetah

• The Fastest of the Fast

By HT
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Introduction

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Physical features

• Cheetahs are tan with black spots
• Short hair
• 30 inches tall
• Weighs between 100 and 140 pounds
• There face is like a normal dogs face
• Small, pointy ears
• Short, stubish nose

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Time to Drop Some Knowledge

• Cheetahs can also be called the felidae
• Cheetahs can run 70 mile per hour
• Cheetahs are the fastest land animals on earth
• Cheetahs can run so fast there lungs and heart
  need to be very big

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Life Span
They live from 15 to 27 years in the wild They
live 15 to 20 years in captivity They are
endangered
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Habitat

• Cheetahs live in
• Semi-desert regions
• Grassland plains
• Bushland
• African plains

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Climate

• African plains and semi - desert regions can be
  120 Fahrenheit
• Bush land and grass land plains are below 0 to 20
  Celsius

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Land forms

• Cheetahs live in areas with lots of trees
• They pounce on their pray from the trees

• Cheetahs live in flat lands
• They like flat lands because they can catch as
  much speed as they need to get their prey

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Food

• Cheetahs are carnivores
• They eat meat
• They like to pounce on their prey
• Cheetahs are not cold blooded

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Prey and Predators

• Hyenas , lions and leopards eat cheetahs
• Cheetahs eat small animals like gazelles
• Cheetahs use their speed to catch their prey
• Cheetahs dont have a problem catching their prey

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Behavior

1. They use speed to catch prey
2. They run to get away from their predators
3. They play fight with their babies to teach them
   to fight
4. They sit in trees (really high up) so they can
   protect themselves.
5. They can sit low in the grass so that they can
   pounce on their prey.
6. They sprint from 500 feet away from the prey and
   when they catch their prey they bite their neck
   and shake their prey to kill it.

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babies

• Baby cheetahs are 7 to 10 ounces
• They are 9 inches long from nose to base of tail
• They play fight to know what a real fight is like
  same with catching food

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Physical adaptation

• They adapt to their habitat by having dirty
  blonde hair with black spots so their hair can be
  like the color of the grass.
• Cheetahs lay in the grass with their special hair
  so the prey does not see them.
• They have small ears so they can use them to hear
  their prey
• They have long legs to run fast.
• They have a long tail to help them keep balance
  in trees

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physiological

• Cheetahs have sharp teeth to bite in to prey
• Cheetahs have 1 2 inch nails to stab in to its
  prey
• Cheetahs have big hearts so they can run very
  fast for a SHORT DISTANCE

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Fun facts

• Cheetahs can run more than one mile in 45 seconds
• Cheetahs can run as fast as a ford pick up truck
• Cheetahs can run 70 miles per hour for 900 feet
• It takes 3 gun shots to kill a cheetah