The cheetah is one of the cats that lives throughout Africa and Asia from South Africa to India. Cheetahs can range from
2 ½
-3 feet and weigh from 110-140Ibs. Their top speed if 70 mph (110 km/h) and live up to 12 years. The cheetahs habitat must be very dry, its habitat is the savannah. The savannah is perfect camouflage for the cheetah and has perfect weather conditions. The tall grasses make the cheetahs skin invisible. They eat mainly gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas and smaller hoofed animals. In 1900 there were about 100,000 cheetahs, because of hunters there are now only 7,500.