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Cheetahs do not roar like lions, but they purr, hiss, whine and growl. They also make aninal and wild a variety of contact calls; the most common is a birdlike chirping sound. Once a cheetah has made a kill, it eats quickly and keeps an eye out for scavengers lions; leopards, hyenas, vultures and jackals will occasionally take away their kills. Although cheetahs usually life prey pictures on the smaller antelopes such as Thomson''s aninal gazelles and impalas, they can catch wild and life wildebeests and zebras pictures if hunting together. They also hunt hares and other small mammals and birds. Although known as an animal of the open plains that relies on speed to catch its prey, research has shown aninal and wild that the cheetah depends on cover to stalk prey. The cheetah life gets as close pictures to the prey as possible, aninal then in a burst of speed tries to outrun wild its quarry. life Once the cheetah closes in, it knocks the prey to the ground with its pictures paw.

Litters consist of two or three cubs that aninal weigh about 3 pounds each. wild and life Some mothers carefully nurture the young; others may neglect or abandon them, especially when food is scarce. Usually two or more females in a pride give birth about the pictures same time. A lioness aninal will permit cubs other than her own wild to suckle, sometimes enabling a neglected infant to survive. Capable hunters by 2 years of age, lions become fully grown between 5 and 6 years and normally live about 13 years. Lions have long been killed in rituals of bravery, as hunting trophies and for their medicinal life and magical powers. Although lions are now protected in many parts of Africa, they were once considered to be stock-raiding vermin and were killed on sight. In some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem. pictures Early written records described the giraffe aninal as "magnificent wild in appearance, bizarre in form, unique in gait, colossal in height and inoffensive in character."

The stripes on Grevy''s zebras are more numerous and narrow than those of the plains zebra and do not extend to the belly. In all zebra species, the stripes on the forequarters form a triangular pattern; Grevy''s have life a similar pattern on the hindquarters, while pictures others have a slanted or horizontal pattern. Burchell''s zebras inhabit aninal savannas, from treeless grasslands to open woodlands; they sometimes occur in tens of thousands in migratory herds on the Serengeti plains. Grevy''s zebras are now mainly restricted to parts of northern Kenya. Although wild they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and require less water than other zebra species, these zebras compete with domestic life livestock for water and have suffered heavy poaching for their meat and skins. Family groups pictures are stable members maintaining strong bonds over many years. Mutual grooming, where zebras stand together and nibble the hair on each other''s neck and back, helps develop and preserve these bonds.

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