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Sennelier watercolour painting of a cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) based on my own reference photography.

The cheetah is about the same size as a leopard, but stands 7.6 cm taller and is much less muscled (average weight of 57 kg). The cheetah is the fastest land animal and can reach speeds of ~112 km per hour over short distances (Sunquist and Sunquist (2002)). It is currently classed as ‘vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List (Durant et al. 2015), and is distributed within southern and eastern Africa, and the critically endangered subspecies, the Asiatic cheetah (A.j.venaticus), is still found in Iran.

References for text:

Sunquist, M. and Sunquist, F. (2002). Wild Cats of the World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Durant, S. Mitchell, N. Ipavec, A. and Groom, R. (2015). Acinonyx jubatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T219A50649567. dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.201…. Downloaded on 04 January 2016.

Description
Sennelier watercolour painting of a cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) based on my own reference photography.

The cheetah is about the same size as a leopard, but stands 7.6 cm taller and is much less muscled (average weight of 57 kg). The cheetah is the fastest land animal and can reach speeds of ~112 km per hour over short distances (Sunquist and Sunquist (2002)). It is currently classed as ‘vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List (Durant et al. 2015), and is distributed within southern and eastern Africa, and the critically endangered subspecies, the Asiatic cheetah (A.j.venaticus), is still found in Iran.

References for text:

Sunquist, M. and Sunquist, F. (2002). Wild Cats of the World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Durant, S. Mitchell, N. Ipavec, A. and Groom, R. (2015). Acinonyx jubatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T219A50649567. dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.201…. Downloaded on 04 January 2016.