Thursday Thirteen Edishun 25

The past cuppul of weeks I did Lion and Tiger fakts. I was going to do Bear fakts this week, but coodn't find vary many. So insted, I'm doing the mitey Cheetah. Cheetahs are listed as an endanjerd species.

1. Cheetahs grow to 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 feet long and way between 75 and 145 pownds.
2. Males live in small permanent groops called "coalitions" made up of two to four brothers.
3. In the wild they live 8-10 yeers. In zoos, up to 17 yeers old.
4. Feemale cheetahs live alone, ixsept win razing cubs.
5. Cheetahs uzhully hunt on the middle of the day to avoid lions and leperds.
6. Many cheetahs suffer from jenetik deefekts due to inbreeding, possibly frum a sharp dekline in populayshun as far bak as 10,000 yeers ago.
7. Only 8,000 - 10,000 wild cheetahs survive.
8. In Namibia, ranchers may legully shoot cheetahs that pray on livestok.
9. The werld's fastest mammul, the cheetah can aksellerate from 0-45 miles per howr in abowt 2 sekunds, and in short bursts can go neerly 65 miles per howr.
10. Cheetahs' tales are abowt 30 inches long and offin have a wite tip.
11. Cheetahs live in savannas and are not fownd in forest areas or wetlands. (They probly don't live in the forest becuz the vishus deer wood eet them.)
12. Cheetahs mostly eet hoofed animuls that way less than 90 pownds.
13. In the 16th sentury, emperers and other royalty hunted gazelles with trayned cheetahs.
    

Klik heer to find owt whut yoo can do to help save the wild cheetah.

Thursday Thirteen Edishun 25

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