Habitat
Cheetahs are best known for living in the grasslands of East Africa , in vast national parks like the Serengeti or Masai Mara. However, cheetahs can range throughout any open country, from savannah to scrubland to desert, wherever there is adequate prey for them to survive. Today the Southwestern African country of Namibia is home to one of the largest populations of cheetah in all of Africa . Cheetahs roam grasslands, savannas and semi-arid prairies — any area with open land and plenty of prey is good cheetah habitat.
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION: Cheetahs live in small, isolated populations mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. They are very rare in southern Algeria and northern Niger, and range from Senegal east to Somalia and south to northern South Africa. A few have been reported from Iran. However, many of their strongholds are in eastern and southern African parks.
In order to survive cheetahs will eat primarily hoofed mammals weighing less than 90 pounds, including gazelles and young wildebeest. They will also eat smaller game such as hares, warthogs, and birds. Claws that stick out like a dog's give the cheetah traction in high speed turns to catch these animals. Cheetahs have a high success rate when chasing prey but they do lose a significant amount of their catch to other larger animals such as the lion.It is not common for them to defend their kill. They must also teach their young how to kill and attack their prey so they can learn how to survive in the wild.
http://www.lions.org/cheetah.html
(picture)
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/africansavanna/fact-cheetah.cfm
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION: Cheetahs live in small, isolated populations mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. They are very rare in southern Algeria and northern Niger, and range from Senegal east to Somalia and south to northern South Africa. A few have been reported from Iran. However, many of their strongholds are in eastern and southern African parks.
In order to survive cheetahs will eat primarily hoofed mammals weighing less than 90 pounds, including gazelles and young wildebeest. They will also eat smaller game such as hares, warthogs, and birds. Claws that stick out like a dog's give the cheetah traction in high speed turns to catch these animals. Cheetahs have a high success rate when chasing prey but they do lose a significant amount of their catch to other larger animals such as the lion.It is not common for them to defend their kill. They must also teach their young how to kill and attack their prey so they can learn how to survive in the wild.
http://www.lions.org/cheetah.html
(picture)
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/africansavanna/fact-cheetah.cfm