MUST ANSWER KEY... MAXIMUM: ALL AND OTHER FACTS U KNOW BOUT CHEETAHS           MINIMUM: THREE\n\ncheetahs dont run 65 mph. then wut do they run?\n\ncheetahs may not have just polka dot spots. when they dont, what do they have?\n\ncheetahs dont roar like many other wild cats. what do they do to communicate?\n\ncheetahs dont run and pounce on their prey. what do they do?\n\nlong ago people used cheetahs to race against dogs. who usually won?\n\neven longer ago people thought cheetahs were part cat and part dog. why?\n\nwhat do cheetahs usually prey on?\n\nwhat are cheetahs afraid of?\n\nwho is the cheetah's most hated enemy?
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-It is the fastest of all terrestrial animals and can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph) in short bursts.they'd beat the fastest dogs\n\n-Black "tear marks," which run from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth\nThe fur of the cheetah is yellow with round black spots, which help to camouflage it, and distinctive black tear lines on the sides of the muzzle. The cheetah’s coat is tan, or buff colored, with black spots measuring from ¾ to 1¼ inches across (2–3 cm). There are no spots on its white belly, and the tail has spots which merge to form four to six dark rings at the end. The cheetah's tail usually ends in a bushy white tuft. Cheetahs also have a rare fur pattern mutation: cheetahs with larger, blotchy, merged spots are known as 'King Cheetahs'.\n\n-Unlike true big cats, cheetahs can purr as they inhale, but cannot roar. By contrast, lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars can roar but cannot purr, except while exhaling\n\n-Cheetah cubs have a high mortality rate due to genetic factors and predation by carnivores in competition with the cheetah, such as the lion and hyena. Some biologists now believe that they are too inbred to flourish as a species.Cheetahs were formerly, and are sometimes still hunted because many farmers believe that they eat livestock\n\n-Cheetahs are carnivores, eating mostly mammals under 40 kg (90 lb), including Thomson's gazelles, and impala. Wildebeest and calves are hunted when cheetahs hunt together. Guinea fowl and hares are also hunted. While the other big cats mainly hunt by night, the cheetah is a diurnal hunter. It hunts usually either early in the morning or later in the night when it is not so hot, but there is still enough light - cheetahs hunt by vision rather than by scent. Prey is stalked to within ten to thirty meters (30-100 ft), then chased. Using their tails to maintain balance, cheetahs can make sharp turns if needed. The chase is usually over in less than a minute and if the cheetah fails to make a quick catch, it will often give up rather than waste energy. Another reason a cheetah may give up is because running at such high speeds puts a great deal of strain on the cheetah's body. The temperature within the cheetah reaches such high temperatures that it would be deadly to continue - this is why cheetahs are often seen resting even after they have caught their prey. Roughly half of their chases are successful. The cheetah kills its prey by tripping it during the chase, then biting it on the underside of the throat to suffocate it, for the cheetah is not strong enough to break the necks of the gazelles it mainly hunts. Then the cheetah proceeds to devour its catch as quickly as possible, for it is unable to defend itself against lions and hyenas.
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All those listed would be able to do this job Nicely. My favorite--Velociraptors. Oh for the love of a good chase!! The velociraptors would have her running on those tooth-pick legs of hers and she'd probably break both in the chase, fall and "CRUNCH"!! It's Din-Din Time, They might need to spit on her first before eating--Gets that bitter taste out of the Velociraptors mouths,LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I hunt mainly coon but my dogs of put up a few bobcat every season.  I've also hunted bear a few times.  I run one Bluetick, 2 redbones, and used to run two black and tans until a few weeks ago when my lead black and tan got hit and killed by a car.  Oh and I'm in the Big California.
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Divide 278 by four to get the number of horses, then subract that number of horses from the heads to get the number of ostriches. MAke sense? If it doesn't email me. \n\nR u sure you have the number of hooves right?????? Cause ostriches don't have hooves but there is a remainder of 2 did u mean feet? if u meant feet then...\n\nummm...\n\nOOOO i no.... 123 horses and 0 ostriches! works don't it?
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Killer Whales are very complicated creature and our biologist and scientist are yet to understand it fully.\n\nThis is Dolphin family.\n\nWhen a group, it is very ferocious to all the water species that includes even Sharks and some times Blue Whales.\n\nIt marches in the sea in a group of about 40 Killer Whales called school of Whales. During that time, it tarments and kills all who come across or confront with it.\n\nThe biggest strength of Killer Whales are its speed and acrobatic swimming skills.\n\nAs for as the defence machanism is concern, it can easily escape from any velunarable situation by its speed.\n\nIt is a friendly species of human being. There is no data that a Killer whale attacked a human being.
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This is actually a great question, and entire books have been written on it.  I am not going to try an condense down those books (look for authors like Jared Diamond and Stephen j. Gould) but I will just give you my thoughts.  \n\nFirst, the neandertal were very close to us in intelligence.  There is much debate on how close, but the evidence points towards them being almost as adaptable as us and probably capable of symbolic thought.  This shows lightning can strike twice.\n\nSecond, you say no other animal comes remotely close, but this isn't quite true.  chimps, gorillas, some whales & dolphins, and elephants have been shown to be quite intelligent, capable of learning, communicating, even using tools.  So while I'm not saying they will win in a chess match, they do come at least remotely close to our intelligence.\n\nThird, you really answer your own question, as you say intelligence can and does help us and other species.  If this adaptation is actually useful, then why wouldn't we continue to evolve in that direction?  \n\nMy final point is this:  once we became smart enough to outsmart the natural world, we then had to outsmart each other!  Our anscestors had to be smart enough to not just kill mammoths and cook meat, they had to be smart enough to defend against raids from other tribes, or smart enough to be useful in a tribe full of smart people, in order to stand out to potential mates.  that is a powerful selective pressure on any species, but especially our anscetors.
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Once upon a time all dogs were invited to\na party. When they arrived at the party\nthey were required to leave their\nbutts at the door. All the dogs hung them\non hooks by the door.\nThe party went on and the dogs were\nhaving a great time. All of a sudden\na fire broke out. The dogs raced to\nthe door and grabbed whichever Glutaeus Maximus\nthey could grab first,\nIn an effort to find their own Glutaeus Maximus.\nthat is why, to this very day,\ndogs sniff each other's butts!!!!
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Amazing how many will answer without seeing the tracks. Go here http://www.cityofmelrose.org/departments/Conservation/files/tracks/tracks.jpgand you can decide for yourself by seeing examples of tracks and their sizes. BTW housecats do go deep in the woods. Check out the footprints.\nhttp://www.bear-tracker.com/mammals.html This is a great site with actual photographs.
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I think you are right. There is so much we don,t know, and a lot of people don't care. My partner was never in to cats, as I was, but after living with them now for years, he has observed a lot about their communication behaviour. Again, the dummies don,t notice or care.We have had an atrocious record with animals and I don't think we care enough to find out more about them. Glad you're a thinker! :)
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Because that would require drastic changes in their species.  Prey animals which are good at running have kids who are also good at running, and the best runners survive.  If they were to start evolving into an animal which is good at fighting, it would probably be not-so-good at running.  When the first few generations were born, they would be bad enough at running to get caught, but not good enough at fighting to kill the predators.  So no baby fighters.  Animals don't change a lot in one generation.  Evolution works over thousands of generations, and the in-between ones have to be viable for it to work.
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Yeah. The Cheetah Girls always dance, sing, and even act good. They never let us down with there music. It's a cool song and soundtrack!
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Most animal mothers show a lot of determination in raising up their children.  For example, cheetah mothers spend around 18 months with their mothers learning how to survive.  They may stay for another two years before they really learn how to hunt.  The mother is constantly providing food for the young during that time, and is committed to raising the small number of cubs.  This link has a picture of some animal mothers.\n\nhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/mothersday/index.html
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Tiger for both.  I heard long ago (in other words, no source and don't know if it's true) that a lion attacks from a three point stance with one claw, while a tiger will leap in and get you with both claws.  Lions live in groups though, so the tiger might be in trouble if he were to pick on one while the rest of the pride were around.
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Some animals have only one partner their whole life (humans are more promiscuous than say penguins).\nSome animals live in society (some even are more organized than humans and do what they have to do).\nSome animals kill to eat (that includes humans).\n\nEvery animal behave according to their specie, so, it's a mistake to think a fish has to act like an ant, or that a human has to act like a lion. We are not vegetables, nor minerals, we are animals and animals do not behave like other animals of another specie.\n\nFear and anger are instincts. Try hitting someone and see if they'll be stoic waiting for your first and not even blink.\n\nWheter you believe in evolution or not, you can't deny instincts. I'm sure instincts can be accepted without evolution.
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In the Indian jungles bears can get killed by tigers. But bears sometimes have known to fatally injure tigers as well!!\n\nHowever, the Polar bear is the strongest of all land predators and it's arms (like the grizzlies) have enormous strength. Cats are born predators and killing is an instinct for them and they kill quickly and with expertise. However, bears are known for sustained fighting since that's the way they kill. \n\nHowever, I think the story could end differently if male African lions fight with bears since African lions regularly fight to keep or take over prides. \n\nSo, I'm guessing that if the Liger (or Tigon) can't kill a bear in the first few attempts, the bear is going to get the better of it.
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Well this is a very broad question. You really have to secify which animal you are talking about. If you look at animals on the higher end of the food chain, or ones that are very large, like lets say polar bears, elephants and blue whales, one offspring every couple of years is enough to  maintain current population numbers.\nThen again if you look at smaller animals that are heavily preyed upon, like aphids, mosquitoes, mice, and lemmings for instance, they have several broods or litters a year and their numbers are incredibly high. This is simply out of necessity. If they did not have such high fecundity they would simply dissappear.\nNow about what you said about animals staying at roughly the same numbers all the time, every year, that is not at all true.\nAnimals have fluctuations in density all the time. Look at the Lynx and Hare numbers. They have a rise and fall cyclical population, and this cycle occurs every 7 years or so.\nInsect poplulations do the same thing, they are super adundant one year, then the conditions change slightly and they are nearly non-existant the next year, just look at earwigs...\n\nso I hope this clears up some confusion, next time specify a certain group of animals, because there is no magic number, or percentage I can give you to answer this question. All organisms even plants and microbes, reproduce at the speed neccessary for their own survival, and it is different not only from species to species, but from place to place as well.
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It depends entirley on hair colour, most adapt so that they blend in, but you can see them moving if there are lots, mostly they cling on to the hair as they find it very difficult to move out of hair. I have provided some links to close up pics of the beasties!