DNA traces evolution of extinct sabertooths and the American cheetah-like cat
...lated to the puma, rather than to the true African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus). Miracinonyx and the true cheetah Acinonyx show remarkable morphological similarity, including elongated limbs and enlarged nares, but...Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America
... years of being hunted by the now extinct American cheetah ( Acinonyx trumani ) was probably why the pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana ) -- an antelopelike animal found throughout the deserts of the American Southwest -- developed such blinding speed, clocking in at around 60 miles an hour. Introducing free-...In Iran, camera traps reveal rare Asiatic cheetahs
...nce ranging from the Red Sea to India, the Asiatic cheetah today is hanging on by only the thinnest of thread...y endangered big cat since 2001. "As a species the cheetah is still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family...A plan for reintroducing megafauna to North America
...) such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via predation, herbivory, and other processes. What are the consequence...Pendulums, predators and prey: The ecology of coupled oscillations
... bringing leopards into the system causes lion and cheetah populations to oscillate in phase with each other-...ks to the leopard's advantage---when both lion and cheetah populations are low, leopards can pounce on the plentiful prey. But then lions and cheetahs increase...In Iran, cheetahs collared for the first time
...ers between 60 and 100 animals, making the Asiatic cheetah one of the most imperiled cats on earth. The two ...nce ranging from the Red Sea to India, the Asiatic cheetah today is hanging on by only the thinnest of threads. In the 1970s, estimates of the number of cheet......ogical Society of London (ZSL) have found that, in cheetah society, its the female with the wandering eye, as... study, researchers found that about 43 percent of cheetah litters with more than one cub were fathered by more than one male, revealing a mating system that d...