Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds. Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Fun Cheetah Fact, No. 1: It’s the fastest land animal, reaching speeds of 70 mph. They’re fast, graceful hunters, an eliteness that fascinated Virginia Tech cornerbacks coach Derek ...

First, it helps to understand how cheetahs typically hunt. Cheetahs often live and hunt alone or with just one or two other individuals. On their own, they can take down medium-sized mammals, such as ...

It only takes three seconds for a cheetah to go from 0 to 60 mph — few cars can even do that. But in this incredible video from the Hassanein YouTube channel, a group of zebras somehow managed to ...

Scientists are testing new tools to spot the origin of cheetahs poached from the wild and smuggled for the pet trade. By Rene Ebersole / Undark Published Jun 18, 2024 8:00 AM EDT This article was ...

Quincy Williams sat at his locker in Denver before Sunday’s game against the Broncos and pulled up a video on his phone, a cheetah hunting a gazelle. He has the video saved. He watches it before every ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cheetahs can aptly be called the race cars of the animal kingdom: sleek, graceful and supremely speedy. Scientists have now taken a bit of a look under the hood of these feline ...

At Kafue National Park, one cheetah has adapted his hunting strategy to find more prey: He hunts in the forest, instead of the open plains. This flexibility is good news for the future of Africa’s ...

Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover but they have other tricks. Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover. But they have other tricks for ...

I was chasing the boys around a playground recently and I suddenly better understood cheetahs. I’ve watched a fair number of nature programs showing cheetahs running down gazelles and antelopes. But I ...

India takes a groundbreaking step in wildlife tourism with the launch of its first-ever Cheetah Safari at Kuno National Park, ...

This mother cheetah’s name Phefo means ‘wind,’ and you’ll know why when you see her run. In seconds, she can go from zero to one of the fastest creatures on land. It's breakfast time. This normally ...