Cheetahs

Tour a Cheetah with cool videos! This Animal Planet site is full of action packed videos, photos and facts about cheetahs.

Did you know that the body of a cheetah is adapted for speed? Read all about it on the BBC Wildfacts page, an informative start to your quest for facts and stats on the fastest animal on earth. Plenty of photos of cheetahs in action here.

This site is chocked full of interesting facts about cheetahs- ranging from their behavior and diet to sound clips of a real cheetah's chirp!

The San Diego zoo official website has an informative rundown on the African spotted sprinter. A terrific multi-media resource on cheetahs for the eyes and ears; this site covers it all with photo, video and audio bytes.

This site leaves us loaded with facts and includes a detailed section about cheetah behavior. It also has cool pictures and individual profile pages of cheetahs born in captivity.

Wikipedia is the ultimate resource for learning all about cheetahs. Articles examine the cheetah's diet and hunting, subspecies, and reproduction habits. Also read about their conservation status and economic importance.

On this site the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park provides some general information on the world's fastest land mammal, including an interesting "past/present/future" paragraph for a brief history and a look at what is to come for the cheetah. Best of all, this page has a link to a live cheetah cam!

This website, short and to the point, gives fascinating details about the animal that was built for speed; from how cheetahs kill their prey (a suffocating bite to the neck!) to their top speeds (70mph).