What is the difference between a cheetah,puma and leopard?
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Cheetahs are built for speed , they are long legged and slender with a grey-hound like profile to their body. They have black 'tear-marks' leading from the corner of the eyes to the mouth. The spots are solid.\nLeopards are stocky in comparrison with a massive head (Particularly males), they are ambush hunters and are extremely powerfull in their build. Their spots form 'rossettes; rather than being just black spots. \nPuma just looks totally different!
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a tiger a wolverine and a hyena
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Answer provided by www.qtsaver.com\namur leopards is on a current endangered list because there are fewer than 50 leopards left in the wild.
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The Cheetah (derived from Sanskrit word Chitraka meaning "Speckled") (Acinonyx jubatus) is an atypical member of the cat family (Felidae) that hunts by speed rather than by stealth or pack tactics. It is the fastest of all terrestrial animals and can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph) in short bursts
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The impala is a medium-sized antelope with a dark brown back fading to a medium brown flank and a white underbelly.\n\nBirds in this order have spindly legs, long necks, and long bills. Ibises tend to have slender, down-curved bills.\n\nIndian muntjac.This is a small, brown deer with branched antlers and a longer nose than other types of deer.\n\nThe Illiger's macaw is a small macaw with a black bill and bare cheek regions. In general the plumage is green. The forehead and sides of abdomen and lower back orange-red to red; the crown is blue; the head, nape, and cheeks greenish-blue; the wings blue with blue primary-coverts and bluish-green edges; the under wing-coverts olive-green. The tail feathers are blue with reddish-brown tips and olive-yellow underside.\n\nIndian peafowl:\nMALE The rooster (cok) has a fan-shaped crest, a metallic blue head, and a bright blue neck and upper body. The tail has long, ornamental feathers (not true tail feathers but elongated upper tail coverts) with black eye-spots on the rounded tips. \nFEMALE The hen has a chestnut-brown crest and neck with feathers bordered in bronze and green.\n\nIanthina\nibex\nibis\nichneumon fly\nIchthyornis\nichthyosaur\niguanodon\nindri\ninsect\nIrish terrier\nIrish water spaniel\nIrish wolfhound\nitch mite\nizard
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Felines (cats and lions)\nCanines (wolves, coyotes, dingos, African wild dogs)\nVampire bats\nkiller whales\n\ncertain birds such as\neagles\nhawks\nkites\nbuteos
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I'm quoting myself, because this question has been asked several times before.\n\nMelanistic (black or almost black) individuals of panther or leopard (Panthera pardus) are known as black leopards. However, there are also melanistic jaguars (Panthera onca) which are native to South America, and look superficially similar to melanistic panthers. Both may be referred to as "black leopard".\nThis confusion has to do with common names, which frequently do not make much taxonomical sense because people tend to call animals by names that remind them of other animals they know. I agree it's confusing, but there it is. \nMelanistic individuals, which may be completely black or darker than normal ones to different degrees, occur in several felid species. These individuals mate with their own species (although the question of felid hybridization is another interesting issue). The common name "panther" can be applied to any big melanistic cat, or to any of the species in genus Panthera.\nHere in Argentina, a "pantera negra" is obviously a jaguar. \n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Aj1OVdF04ZwTkh_DCM9nCOAjzKIX?qid=1006021211262
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Cheetah, they can run 60 mph. (on land)\nPeregrine falcon, it can fly up 100-200 mph (in the air) \nBaleen Whale, it can swim up to 30 mph (in water)
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I don't think wolves have better chance at surviving. But I do agree that wolves have advantages in strenght in numbers. A strong group has it's pros and cons. So do solitary pumas or mountain lions.\n\nPumas are physically tougher than wolves. Pumas are bigger, faster, more agile, more adaptable but have low stamina rate. Once pumas have exerted their big blow to animals or preys or enemies, they experience a great loss of energy and have to recover to regain energy. However, their big blow is really, really fatal. A single bite is an incredible bite force. \n\nMeanwhile, wolves have high stamina rate than pumas and can remain energetic for a long period. However, they are smaller, slower, less agile and less adaptable than pumas.\n\nPumas have their secret weapons; retractable claws that are always sharp, powerful muscle especially legs muscle that allows them to jump far, night visions and solitary characteristic which allows them to independantly live.\nWolves have great smelling sensory organs, good hearing and strong family bond which makes them strong and united. Unity makes victory. However, they must live together for the synergy of wolf generations.\n\nWould a puma take on a wolf?\nProbably will happen when a puma confronts a wandering wolf or a packless wolf.\nWho will win?\nAccording to statistic, the puma has the advantage if the puma manages to land the big blow to the wolf. If not, the puma has to pounce the wolf quicker than the wolf since the wolf has no special weapon except for high stamina rate. The puma has to beat the wolf till the wolf drops.\nWell, I find that cats always fight for a long period but dogs rarely fight for a long period.\n\nSo, I choose the puma or mountain lion or cougar over the wolf.\nHow about you?
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Someone running from a cheetah! \nHave a great day!
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Well, they both smell funny. the difference is that a zebra seems to get eaten by lions more often.\n\n\nhttp://groups.myspace.com/closetednerd
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The caracal, the ocelot, the lynx, the puma, the African wildcat are all in between the big cats and the house cats (except the African wildcat which is similar in size to a house cat).  As far as common ancestry, many cat species are unrelated and follow lines back to their own common ancestor, but not to one common to all cats.  Darwin was wrong.
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they are born as what they are. you are exzactly right. if it is a zebra it isnt born as a horse if it is a leopard it isnt born as a lion. that dont make sence. just becuase it looks like another animal dont mean it is another animal till it getts it spots or strips
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A cheetah has a few body adaptations that helps it achieve such great speed.  A cheetah has long legs, a slender body, and a flexible back bone.And the claws of a cheetah do not retract like those of other cats.The cheetahs claws give it more traction thus enabling it to run much faster.
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cheetah eats herbivore who east grass.\n\ngrass <-herbivore <-carnivore
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Definitely dogs.  Cats can't look at you with big, sad eyes.  Dogs are also more loving.
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It's largely about torque, and humans, in the way they are designed structurally (bone structure, muscle strength, and position of tendons- which connect the muscles to the bones) cannot produce enough torque to translate into the speed of a cheetah.\n\nOur arms and legs are really levers. A lever turns about a fulcrum. This is similar to the way a see-saw is designed. If you have ever sat on one, you will have noticed that the farther away from the fulcrum you are (the fulcrum being the center point), the more force- (or what we call  "torque") you can generate. While cheetahs do have strong muscles (the size of the muscle also counts), they have the advantage that their tendons are attached farther away from their "fulcrums", which are the joints. Just as with the see-saw principle, they can generate more torque with the same amount of force, which means that even if a cheetah and a human had the same muscle mass, the cheetah would be much stronger, and faster.\n\nCheetahs are also able to generate a substantial amount of power for short bursts of time. This has to do with the muscle type. All animals have two major types of muscle: slow twitch and fast twitch. The fast twitch muscles are capable of enormous bursts of power for short duration, while slow twitch provide more steady amounts of power over prolonged distances.  Fast twitch muscles generally do not use aerobic (oxygen-based) energy, instead relying on the conversion of sugars like glucose in the absence of oxygen. Cheetahs have a higher percentage of these fast-twitch muscles and they can generate enormous amounts of power for te short bursts they require to catch prey. But their evolution has cost them because they are otherwise very thin and lack bulk- meaning they can expend up to half of their energy reserves in one hunt alone. Had they had more of the slow-twitch muscles, they would be better able to conserve their energy, but at the cost of speed and power.