Cheetahs: A Genetic Analysis

Animal Poaching will eventually make animals go extinct. There will no longer be wild animals if this continues. The elephants’ population has decreased by more fifty percent over a ten year period due to poaching. The animals that reside here on earth brings a balance to the world that is needed. Since the mass killings started the balance has been knocked all the way

The limbs of a lion are very muscular. This allows it to reach speeds of over 35 miles per hour when chasing prey. However, they cannot run at this speed for long distances. The African lion has found a way around this problem by hunting at high speeds in large groups. They surround the prey and close in. This means that the chase is not very

When the lanes start to wear down players must start making adjustments. These types of players have found success in switching to a less reactive ball while playing the same line. The strongest types of ball motions are often rolled very deep in the lane even though the pattern allows for many different entry angles. Bowlers have often found that different lane surfaces affect the ball motion, making some shots harder than others. Another pattern, referred to as the Cheetah pattern, one of the shortest, lies at only about thirty-five feet down the lane. The name implies that players should use faster ball speeds to create straighter angles on the lane. On the PBA tour, this pattern is one of the higher scoring patterns but is tougher for non-professionals

Some unusual facts about the cheetah are that unlike other cats, they cannot climb trees. They also cannot roar, but they can purr very loudly. Siblings mostly form the hunting groups. The cheetah is the smallest of all of the wild cats. Streaks under the cat’s eyes or “tear marks” help them to see, because it blocks out the sun’s rays. Their tail is a form of steering to help them to turn tight

The article “Cheetahs Ghosts of the Grasslands” by Richard Coniff discusses the decline in cheetahs around the world due to predators and the destruction of their habitats. The cheetah population began diminishing an estimated amount of 10,000 years ago. About 1,500 cheetahs are living in captivity along with lions and hyenas. It might seem as if cheetahs are very fierce wild cats; however, in the Serengeti located in Tanzania Cheetahs face many threats such as cubs being killed by lions and hyenas or either die of hunger because lions eat the food that the cheetah hunted for. Biologists believe that this animal is sensitive to changes in its habitat, so the slightest change can cause harmful effects to cheetahs. Cheetahs once roamed in Asia,

Long Ago their was a queen that was a cheetah witch her name was queen Sabrina. She had a daughter who was also a cheetah but her name was princess Selena. Today was the day Selena was going to the pet store to get a dog. The person in charge of the dogs showed princess Selena a small yappy dog. Princess Selena said, "Thank you" , and left the store to go back home. She showed her mom the queen the bran new yappy dog she got. She told her mom that she would name it Emily Rose because it is a girl it it sounds like a cute name she also told her mom she would call her Ems for short. Next morning it was really cold Selena and her puppy Ems went to the pet store

It is common knowledge that many animals in Africa are going extinct and it is most definitely because of the involvement of people. For example, 10,000-15,000 free-roaming African lions remain, down from 50,000 a decade ago and In 1900 there were about 100,000 cheetah worldwide, present estimates place their number at 10,000 -15,000 with about one tenth of those living in captivity. Because of this many people feel that it is our responsibility to make sure that they survive, or at least continue as nature would intend. Well that is simply an unrealistic expectation, but we should try to make sure we don’t completely ruin the ecosystems, and trophy hunting is the last in a long line of problems to be resolved, and as for now it is actually one of the only things helping certain regions who impose it properly.

One of the mesocarnivores, cheetahs ((Acinonyx jubatus), often faces threats from the top predators by predation and kleptoparasitism, in which the killed prey is stolen by the top predators. In this article, four social groups of cheetahs (single females, single males, males in groups, and mother with cubs) inhabiting the Serengeti National Park are being studied for their behavior-adjusting strategies that reduce negative interactions with apex predators, such as alteration in prey handling, pause time, eat time, and time devoted to being alert. The researchers also investigate how coexistence is achieved between cheetahs and the top predators, such as lions (Panthera leo) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta Crocuta).1

We studied lions, tigers, African wild dogs, leopards, cheetahs, wolves, lynx, otters, bears, hyenas and dingoes. The study spans all continents except Antarctica.

The illegal killing and trafficking of animal parts has long been a global concern. With trading at an estimated 6 billion dollars annually, poaching has become the world’s second most profitable crime activity behind illegal drug trade. In its prevalence, poaching has driven many species to the point of extinction.

For H. sapiens, there are two main types of fast contracting muscle fibers which are Type II and those are subdivided into Type IIa and Type IIb. These type of muscle fibers have different resistances to fatigue. Resistance to fatigue contributes to how effectively the muscle fibers access energy. The reason H. sapiens are able to run for much longer is because their leg muscles contain the muscle fibers IIa and IIb. The IIa muscle fibers have a high capacity for

Even though the agency has been working on finding methods of nonlethal protection it still insist on killing predators. “All the science in the world means nothing,” the article states. This is true since the agency has historically been funded by ranchers and groups with an interest in removing predators. Wildlife Services does not have a true interest in finding nonlethal ways to protect livestock because the funders are antipredator. In order to change the policy of the Wildlife Services. the people’s opinions will need to be changed. The debate over whether the predators should or should not be controlled using lethal method will continue until it no longer becomes a choice between

Animal poaching has a bigger price tag than the trophy sitting on the shelf. Poaching is causing iconic animals of many continents and of our oceans to become endangered or even extinct. These animals that people have come to love and fantasize over may be gone before we are (Africa). Elephants, rhinos, lions, and zebras are the animals thought of the most when it comes to animal poaching, but many animals are poached. They are killed for only one quality, like their horns or skins and the rest of the animal is left behind. Poaching is a massive business that is ran by international networks, it’s estimated to make hundreds of millions of dollars (World). Not all wildlife trade is illegal, but it becomes a crisis when an increasing amount of illegal poaching is done and it directly threatens the survival of species in the wild (World). Since 1960 97.6% of the Black Rhino population in Africa has been poached and lions are extinct in seven African countries (Africa).

As a result, the cheetahs struggle because their lands are being developed by the farmers. Also, the cheetah’s prey have been decreasing because of “bushmeat hunting.” (McGrath) Bushmeat hunting is when the meat is taken away from an animal native to African forests. (Dicationary.com) There has been illegal trading of cubs, of the big concerns about cheetahs has been the illegal trafficking of cubs, powered by the demand from the Gulf States. (McGrath) The draconian people who are illegally trading are separating the cubs from their mothers at a really young age. Also cubs need to have the ability to fight and hunt when they grow up so that they can survive in the wild without starvation. They learn from their parents how to survive.

“The animals that the cheetah preys on for their meal are the smaller ones such as impalas. They can also hunt even bigger animals such as wildebeests. Cheetahs often lose their prey to lions and tiger and hyenas (JessZoo).” It’s more of a competition when it comes to their meal.