![]() ![]() Even the highly cited 'cheetah top speed' comes from just three measured runs by one individual cheetah in 1965. Most measurements of cheetah locomotion had been made on captive animals chasing a lure in a straight line, with few studies eliciting speeds faster than racing greyhounds.įor wild cheetahs, estimates of speed have only ever been made from direct observation or film, in open habitat and during daylight hours. It is well known that cheetahs are the world’s fastest sprinters, but until this study the top speed of wild cheetahs had never been measured. ![]() People: Alan Wilson, Tatjana Hubel, Kyle Roskilly Dynamics and Energetics of Hunting in the Cheetah
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