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Top Five Amazing Facts About Cheetahs!


Cheetahs are amazing animals, they are majestic and elusive. These animals are found in the wild in Africa.

Here we are going to look at five amazing facts about these animals. Here are the top five amazing facts about Cheetahs!

5. Speed The Cheetah is the worlds fastest land animal. They can travel up to 70 MPH, that means that Cheetahs can run as fast as a car moving. Cheetahs can reach a top speed of 70 MPH in just 3 seconds.

Impressive! 4. Diet Cheetahs are carnivores. Their fave foods are foods such as; steemboks and gazelles. These animals mainly eat other animals. They are usually solitary hunters. 3. Cubs Cheetah cubs have more hair than their adults. Cubs have longer hair to protect them from predators, this happens when young cubs are left on their own when their parents are hunting food for them.

2. 2 to 8 kids! Cheetahs are animals that have a lot of children in one go. They can have from anywhere between 2 Cheetah cubs to 8 Cheetah cubs per litter. However, even though Cheetahs have lots of Cheetah cubs, most of them do not live past the first year. 1. Endangered Like many big cats, sadly the Cheetah cat are animals which are in trouble. These animals are sadly classed as endangered. The Cheetah is Africas most endangered big cat, there are only 10,000 of them left in the wild. They are animals which are more endangered than Lions; Lions have an estimated population of around 20,000.

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