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Documentary video filmed at 1200 frames per second showing the movement of Sarah, the fastest recorded cheetah, over a set run The cheetah is the world's fastest land animal. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] Estimates of the maximum speed attained range from 80 to 128 km/h (50 to 80 mph).
An animal can be considered cursorial if it has the ability to run fast (e.g. cheetah) or if it can keep a constant speed for a long distance (high endurance). "Cursorial" is often used to categorize a certain locomotor mode, which is helpful for biologists who examine behaviors of different animals and the way they move in their environment.
The earliest African cheetah fossils from the early Pleistocene have been found in the lower beds of the Olduvai Gorge site in northern Tanzania. [7]Not much was known about the East African cheetah's evolutionary story, although at first, the East and Southern African cheetahs were thought to be identical as the genetic distance between the two subspecies is low. [13]
An illustration of a cheetah cub (Acinonyx jubatus guttata) by Joseph Wolf in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867The Southern African cheetah was first described by German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in his book Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (The Mammals illustrated as in Nature with Descriptions), published in 1775.
The Saharan cheetah is thought to be regionally extinct in Morocco, Western Sahara, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. [2] In Mali, cheetahs were sighted in Adrar des Ifoghas and in the Kidal Region in the 1990s. [7] In 2010, a cheetah was photographed in Niger's Termit Massif by a camera trap. [8]
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