Question

 Habits: It is the fastest animal on the earth. Its top speed can be around 100 km per hour. But it can maintain this speed for a very short distance. Sometimes it can take a leap as long as 25 metres. It creeps silently behind the prey and then leaps up to catch it. It does not preserve its prey. This sometimes causes death of cubs and young cheetah. The cheetah is a solitary creature. It does not live-in groups or herds. A family separates as soon as the cubs are mature.

1. What do you know about the cheetah’s speed ?

2. How far can the cheetah leap?

3. How does the cheetah kill its prey?

4. Why do cubs and young cheetahs sometimes die?

5. Why is the cheetah called a solitary creature ?

6. When does the cheetah family separate ?

Answer 1

1. The cheetah is the fastest animal on the earth and its top speed can be around 100 km per hour.

2. A cheetah can take a leap as long as 25 metres.

3. The cheetah creeps silently behind the prey and then leaps up to catch it.

4. The cheetah does not preserve its prey and hence, sometimes the cubs and young cheetahs die.

5. The cheetah is called a solitary creature because it does not live in groups or herds.

6. A cheetah family separates as soon as the cubs mature.