Interesting Facts about Cheetah
- Cheetah is the faster animal in the whole world; their running speed is 112 to 120 per hour.
- Cheetah has ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just three seconds.
- The cheetah likely evolved in Africa during the Miocene epoch (26 million to 7.5 million years ago), before migrating to Asia.
- The adult cheetah weighs from 21kg to 72kg.
- The Asiatic cheetah separated from its African relative between 32,000 and 67,000 years ago
- The king Akbar had 1000 cheetahs at one time.
- Cheetah is only big cats that cannot roar.
- Usually lion do their hunting at night but cheetah hunt during day time.
- During day time cheetahs has amazing eyesight can see their prey from 5 km away.
- Cheetahs have poor night vision.
- Cheetahs drink only once in three to four days.
- Cheetah originated before any of other big cat cats of today around 4 million years ago.
- Estimated 10,000 to 12,500 cheetahs are living in 24 to 26 African countries.
- An average of 20 percent of cubs dies within one month of birth.
- First 18months of cheetah's cube is very important time for their life in which their mother teach many lessons about hunt and also teach them to avoid the other big cats like lion etc.
- Sexual maturity occurs at 20 to 23 months. The cheetah's gestation period is 90 to 95 days. After that she give 5 to 6 cubes. The cheetah's cube can weigh up to 250-300 grams at birth.
- When cheetah run only one foot at a time touches the ground.
- In 1900, Around 100,000 cheetahs were found in 44 countries of Asia and Africa.
- At birth time they are blind and helpless. From 4 to 10 days they open their eyes.
- The cheetah's cube grow very fast and half of their adult size at 6 to 7 months.
- Female leaves her cube when they are 18 months old.
- Namibia has the largest population of cheetahs with more than 3,000 cheetahs, and Iran has less than 100.
