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Cheetahs
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- All cheetahs are nearly identical genetically, like clones, even though they don't cross-breed. In fact, the cheetah is the purest of natural animal breeds.
- Cheetahs are so alike genetically that any one of them will accept a skin graft from any other.
- Of all the big cats, the cheetah is the most easily tamed.
- Although an attacking cheetah goes for the neck, it doesn't draw blood. It kills its prey by suffocating it.
- Cheetahs never get caught in traps ... why is a mystery to big-game hunters.
- A cheetah can accelerate to a running speed of more than 97 km/h (60 mph) in just two to three seconds, sustaining that speed for up to 300 m (1,000 ft).
- If you put a male and a female cheetah together in one cage, they tend to develop a brother-sister bond and ignore romance. The way to encourage cheetahs in captivity to breed is to put two males into a cage with one female. The competition that develops does the trick.
- Akbar the Great, the Mogul emperor who was the grandfather of the builder of the Taj Mahal, had 9,000 pet cheetahs.
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