Researchers have been analysing how zebra and antelope escape from lions and cheetahs on the African savannah. They say hunting at lower speed favours prey, as it offers them the best chance of ...

Unlike lions and tigers, cheetahs lack the ability to roar, but why? Explore the fascinating anatomical differences that set cheetahs apart from other big cats, and learn about the unique sounds they ...

At an average of 54kg, the cheetah is the smallest of the big cats (and is classified in a separate genus – Acinonyx compared to Panthera – to lions and leopards), and is vulnerable to the ...

Even within Africa’s great game parks, cheetahs are under heavy pressure. Shy and delicately built, the only big cats that cannot roar, they are bullied into the margins by lions, which are far ...

They survive and reproduce in high-density predator environments and co-exist with lions, leopards, spotted hyenas and wild dogs," Vincent van der Merwe, a cheetah conservationist in South Africa ...