Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds. Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that ...

First, it helps to understand how cheetahs typically hunt. Cheetahs often live and hunt alone or with just one or two other individuals. On their own, they can take down medium-sized mammals, such as ...

At Kafue National Park, one cheetah has adapted his hunting strategy to find more prey: He hunts in the forest, instead of the open plains. This flexibility is good news for the future of Africa’s ...

Cheetahs, the epitome of speed and agility in the animal kingdom, possess an awe-inspiring ability to accelerate to incredible speeds in a matter of seconds, making them the fastest land animals on ...

Every schoolchild knows that the cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal—70 mph, no sweat. And, as we all know from National Geographic television documentaries, it is speed that makes Acinonyx ...

The atmosphere is tense as a group of tourists focuses their camera lenses on a group of cheetahs. For about half an hour, the coalition of cheetahs sitting on a rock is watching a herd of zebras ...