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the cheetah is a sports car that decided to grow legs and a heartbeat.
means a large, slender wild cat of Africa and parts of Asia, famous for being the fastest land animal over short sprints.
from From Hindi 'cītā', itself from Sanskrit 'citraka' or 'citra-kāya', meaning roughly 'the speckled one' or 'spotted body' — 'citra' being the same 'variegated, bright' root that colors many Indian words for the dappled and the painted. English picked it up in the early 1700s through colonial India, where trained cheetahs were kept for hunting.
- top speed
- Hits 70 mph in three seconds flat
- no roar
- Can't roar, but chirps like a bird
- tail rudder
- Long tail steers tight turns mid-sprint
- non-retractable claws
- Claws grip ground like track cleats
- overheating
- Sprints end fast before the body cooks
sarah the cheetah — cincinnati zoo cheetah who held the 100m sprint world record at 5.95 seconds in 2011
coalitions of serengeti — male cheetahs in tanzania's serengeti form multi-generational brother alliances to control territory
iranian cheetah project — conservation effort protecting fewer than 50 asiatic cheetahs remaining in iran since 1970s