Cheetah Population Dwindling

In 1900, cheetahs numbered around 100-thousand. Today, there are just 10-thousand in the wild. A new study says being fast is not enough to survive. Everybody’s knows cheetahs are fast. Some recent studies have clocked them at around 95-kilometers per hour over distances of about 366 meters. So, it seems logical that all that sprinting would zap the cat of a lot of energy and make it vulnerable. The problem is, until recently, no one ever really measured how much energy a cheetah...

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