Conversely, leopards boast a more elongated head, which accommodates their powerful jaw muscles, an essential adaptation for their ambush hunting style. Unlike their cheetah counterparts ...

In India, Iran, and Arabia, coursing with cheetahs—or “hunting leopards,” as they were known—became an immensely popular sport among the aristocracy. In the courts of the Mogul emperors ...

We know that lions, hyenas, and leopards also hunt cheetah cubs and may, in some cases, tackle an adult. It is not clear whether male cheetahs also kill cubs fathered by another male so that they ...

This could explain why cheetahs prefer to hunt during the day when other predators are least active. Cheetahs are commonly misidentified as leopards, and vice versa, since both big cats have prominent ...

To the reserve's predators – and especially its cheetahs – the tall grass is the best hunting aid of all ... compared to Panthera – to lions and leopards), and is vulnerable to the other ...

Leopards spend a lot of time up trees, with some of them even hunting from above. What’s less common is seeing lions and cheetahs up in the branches. But in the Okavango Delta, all three of ...

leopards, spotted hyenas and wild dogs," Vincent van der Merwe, a cheetah conservationist in South Africa, told me. But there are other concerns. Cheetahs often enter farmlands to hunt for ...