Are cheetahs adapted to hunting in groups?
Only male cheetahs live and hunt in groups called coalitions, while
female cheetahs raise their cubs in complete solitude.
Indeed, once adulthood is reached,
cheetah brothers live together for life, hunting together and having each other’s backs right until the moment of death.
Additionally, unlike lions and leopards which are aggressively territorial,
male cheetahs seem to tolerate outsiders and welcome them among their group.
In that way, male cheetahs have evolved to minimize the disastrous effects of their species’ usual weakness.
As such, thanks to teamwork combined with lighting speed, they can easily bring down prey as large as jaguars, panthers, lions, bears and even buffalos, which can be defenseless against the cheetahs’ relentless assault.
Nevertheless, male cheetahs are perfectly adapted to living and hunting in groups, while the females are solitary.
Mothers live with their cubs for about 36 months. Even under the mother’s watchful eye, about 70 percent of cubs are killed.
Lone males are not common and typically do not survive for long on their own. If they make it, cheetahs live up to 12 years in the wild (up to 17 years in captivity).
As animals that engage in a behavior called polygyny, male and female cheetahs will mate with many different members of the opposite sex during their lifetime.
Females can mate with several males in the span of a few days and have different fathers for the offspring in the same litter.
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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
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As animals that engage in a behavior called polygyny, male and female cheetahs will mate with many different members of the opposite sex during their lifetime.
Let's hope that this one strikes home.
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The Egyptians realized that dogs and Cheetahs were natural companions early on.
They would take them hunting, where they then used the dog to draw prey into the open...and then set the Cheetah lose to kill it.
It is said that those in the Land of Punt never did this.
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Originally Posted by Sweet Daddy Hate:
I was surprised to learn that zebras are very aggressive and violent animals.
Attempts have been made to train zebras. While occasionally successful, most of these attempts failed due to the zebra's more unpredictable nature and tendency to panic under stress.
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