cheetah is faster than a gazelle.
cheetah is faster than a gazelle.
what is faster a gazelle or a cheetah?
cheetah
the cheetah is a carnivore that prefers medium-sized prey with a body mass ranging from . blesbok, duiker, grant's gazelle, impala, reedbuck, springbok, and thomson's gazelle are some of the common targets of the cheetah. other prey animals include the bat-eared fox, bushbuck, kudu, hartebeest, nyala, oribi, roan antelope, steenbok, sable antelope, and waterbuck; they prey less frequently on the african buffalo, gemsbok, giraffe, ostrich, warthog, wildebeest, and zebra. a study showed that a major proportion of the diet of asiatic cheetahs consists of livestock; local species such as chinkara, desert hare, goitered gazelle, ibex, rodents, and wild sheep are also hunted. generally, only groups of cheetahs will attempt to kill large animals such as hartebeest, although mothers with young cubs will attempt to secure a large prey all by themselves. there are no records of cheetah killing human beings. the diet of a cheetah depends on the area in which it lives. for example, on the east african plains, its preferred prey is the thomson's gazelle, somewhat smaller than the cheetah. in contrast, in kwa-zulu natal the preferred prey is the significantly larger nyala, males of which can weigh up to . they do, however, opt for young and adolescent targets, which make up about 50% of the cheetah diet despite constituting only a small portion of the prey population.
cheetah
the scientific name of thomson's gazelle is "eudorcas thomsonii". it is a member of the genus "eudorcas" and is classified under the family bovidae. thomson's gazelle was first described by british zoologist albert günther in 1884. the relationships between thomson's gazelle and the congeneric mongalla gazelle ("e. albonotata") remain disputed; while some authors such as alan w. gentry of the (natural history museum, london) consider the mongalla gazelle to be a subspecies of thomson's gazelle, others (such as colin groves) consider the mongalla gazelle to be a full species. zoologist jonathan kingdon treated heuglin's gazelle, sometimes considered a species of "eudorcas" ("e. tilonura") or a subspecies of the red-fronted gazelle ("e. r. tilonura"), as a subspecies of thomson's gazelle. thomson's gazelle is named after the scottish explorer joseph thomson; the first recorded use of the name dates to 1897. another common name for the gazelle is "tommy".
thomson's gazelle