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Generally the answer to your question is no. Cheetah lost all their weight as they evolved to run fast. They are now extremely light and are no match for a leopard. Indeed leopards as well as lions kill many young cheetah before they are old enough to do anything. This is why cheetah have evolved to have large litters as as little as 1 in 20 survive to have young of their own.
Cheetah can be driven off their kills by many animals; indeed there have been documented occasions when wart hogs (who are herbivores) have pushed cheetah off their kill. Part of their adaption to this is to hunt in the middle of the day when all the other predators are snoozing through the heat.
Finally a previous answer states that they could out run one. This is probably true but several things should be considered first:
A cheetah has been clocked at doing as much as 110 kmh, and can keep this up for as much as 700m though after this it will need at least 20 minutes to recover. A leopard has been known to do 90kmh or more but can only keep this up for 60-70m
However a leopard recovers faster. As such a cheetah could probably out run a leopard initially.
However cheetah occur at very low densities everywhere they live because they are so incapable of defending themselves and their meals. Kruger for instance in South Africa (about the size of Wales) has a total of 200 or so cheetah, compared to 1000 lions and 1500 leopards.
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∙ 15y agoNo. This cat was made for speed not for strength. It is unable to take down large animals like the zebra alone. These cats are loners so they would not take down a zebra. They stay with stalking and hunting smaller animals like the gazels.
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∙ 13y agounfortunately no but if the lion was sick or dying yes. if a cheetah got a good hold of a lion's neck, he/she could kill it.
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∙ 6y agoHugely unlikely.
Leopards are considerably stronger. Stockier, heavier. Cheetahs are slender, built for speed above all.
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∙ 13y agoI think you mean it the other way around, so I dont think so, but a cheetah can catch a zebra.
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∙ 7y agoA cheetah might be able to take down a young zebra but a zebra would have no reason to catch a cheetah.
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∙ 7y agoA cheetah could not take down an adult giraffe but might kill and eat a very young animal.
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∙ 11y agoYes
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She wasn't a leopard, she was a Cheetah appropriately named, Cheetah
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The leopard - see image above that illustrates the 'spots.' A cheetah has simple spots.
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leopard
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A leopard has a kind of cheetah print.
Does a cheetah eat a leopard?
no
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