Wikijunior talk:Big Cats/Cheetah

the cheetah girls

Brothers or both?
The last sentence of the article says that 'brother cheetahs will sometimes form partnerships...' does this mean that only males form alliances or does it mean siblings in general?


 * Hdavis


 * Only males form alliances, and these alliances are usually brothers. Females are solitary except while breeding or raising offspring.  A rather intersting story surfaced not long ago, when an adult male who was obviously having great difficulty getting prey in a very lean time came up to an adult female who was feeding.  She at first tried to shoo him off but later accepted his "begging" and allowed him to eat with her.  Later it was established that the male was one of her sons from a previous litter.  Apparently he still loved his mother, and she still harbored a reluctant affection for him.  The whole concept of "solitary" cats is more often than not misunderstood.  John Burkitt 18:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

How do cheetahs raise their young?
"Females give birth to three to five cubs at a time. Many cubs are killed by a lack of food or their natural enemies (lions and hyenas). An old African legend says the tear stain marks on the cheetah's face are from the mother weeping for her lost cubs. The mother cheetah must train the young cubs to hunt food for themselves so they can survive on their own. The cubs leave their mother about one or two years later, and will usually live in groups of two or three while reaching adulthood.  Female cheetahs eventually go their separate ways, but brother cheetahs usually form lifelong partnerships and share in the hunt to survive."

I removed this raising young section (quote above for cheetahs) for all of the cats and combined them to form a single page to talk about raising young in cats. In general, much of the subject material was being repeated for each species of cat. I understand that not all cats can be generalized, however, I think that the "exceptions" to the general topic can have the information presented shortly, without the need to devote a whole section of the article to raising young, such as in the facts box. This'll also keep the pages consistent with each other. My two cents. MiltonT 05:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

since when is 274 metres almost a mile
Needs correcting. 2 facts to include./

Other big cats chase only a few hundred meters, the cheetah chases 3.4 miles (5500 meters) at an average speed of 45 miles per hour (72 kilometers per hour).

The top speed, 71 miles per hour (114 kilometers per hour), can usually be maintained for only 200-300 yards (274 meters).

86.166.157.223 (discuss) 18:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC)