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The promiscuity of female cheetahs helps to protect the threatened species not only by preventing infanticide but also by bringing greater genetic diversity. [15] This genetic diversity averts inbreeding from occurring and widens the genetic pool of the species. [15] Nevertheless, cheetah cubs have a remarkably high mortality rate.
The cheetah has a total of 30 teeth; the dental formula is 3.1.3.1 3.1.2.1. The sharp, narrow carnassial molars are larger than those of leopards and lions, suggesting the cheetah can consume a larger amount of food in a given time period. The small, flat canines are used to bite the throat and suffocate the prey.
A cheetah exhibiting pursuit predation. Pursuit predation is a form of predation in which predators actively give chase to their prey, either solitarily or as a group.It is an alternate predation strategy to ambush predation — pursuit predators rely on superior speed, endurance and/or teamwork to seize the prey, while ambush predators use concealment, luring, exploiting of surroundings and ...
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A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense.
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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]