Cheetahs like a certain
size of prey for certain
reasons. Cheetahs like
m e d i u m s i z e d p r e y.
Medium sized for a
cheetah is between 25-56
kilograms. Medium sized
prey is good for cheetahs
because they don’t get too
little of food and they don’t
get too much. Cheetahs
also like medium sized prey
because when they they are
killing the prey it has the
least risk of injury for the
cheetah. The last reason
why cheetahs like medium
sized prey is because if they
caught larger prey the
cheetah would not have
time to eat all of it before a
bigger animal came and
forced the cheetah to
surrender its kill. Good
reasons. Right?
How Cheetahs Get
Their Prey And
What Their Prey Is
One of the things that is
really important to a
cheetahs life is a cheetahs
food or it’s prey. Cheetahs
eat many different things.
For example cheetahs eat:
Blesbok,Thomson’s Gazelles,
Grants gazelles, Springboks,
impalas, hares, wildebeest,
gazelles, calves, thoose, gray
duikers, springbrooks, kudus,
jackals, ostriches, birds,
rabbits, warthogs, and
antelopes. When cheetahs
hunt in groups, the group
will hunt bigger animals
such as zebras.
The cheetah has a special
way of hunting all of thoose
animals. The cheetah will
get as close to their prey as
possible before the cheetah
gets up and uses it’s speed to
chase after fleeing prey. The
cheetah will knock down it’s
prey then strangle it. Oneyear-old cheetahs sometimes
kill their prey by themselves.
Pretty impressive. Don’t you
think that a cheetah’s
method of hunting and
killing prey is pretty
impressive?
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also have a lot of great
adaptations. It’s up to you to
decide the final question: Can
they survive in the wild?
I guess I still have one
question: do you think
cheetahs are up to the
challenge to survive in the
wild with their limitations?
For example having to hunt
in broad daylight instead of
hidden in the shadows of
the night because they have
no night vision. I think
cheetahs are up to the
challenge because despite
their limitations cheetah’s
ANIMALS