The cheetah is the fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds up to 75 mph (121 km/h) in short bursts, allowing it to ...

Speedy animals like the cheetah have evolved bodies primed to catch prey. They are the optimal size for maximum speed. Accelerating takes a lot of energy, and muscles can only function at such ...

That's the finding of a study that tracks the dance of death between the fastest land animal and its prey. Researchers have been analysing how zebra and antelope escape from lions and cheetahs on ...

So, cheetahs are known to abandon their hunt even though their body temperatures remain relatively stable when chasing their prey. Cheetahs hunt a wide variety of prey, mainly small to mid-sized ...

Cheetahs are visual hunters who detect movement across the savannah and engage in short, explosive chases. They rely on this burst of speed to catch their prey, often smaller to medium-sized ...

Cheetahs have evolved to exploit the Mara landscape. They use the termite mounds and fallen logs that litter the plains to scan from distance for nervous, jittery prey. The tall grass provides ...

Image above: As a diurnal hunter, Pobe the cheetah uses the night to sleep and recover from a day of trying to catch prey. Predictably, at the first glimmer of morning light on the horizon ...

Vantara's Jamnagar facility celebrates the birth of 5 cheetah cubs, a significant step in India's cheetah reintroduction ...