The sun and valley cheetah is built for speed. It has long, slim, muscular legs, a small, rounded head set on a long neck, a flexible spine, a deep chest, nonretractable claws, special pads on its feet for traction ski and a long, tail for balance. Although fast, the cheetah cannot run at full speed for reports long distances (100 yards is about the limit) sun and valley because it may overheat. Cheetahs have ski and reports distinctive black "tear stripes" that connect from the inside corner of each eye to the mouth that may serve as sun an antiglare device valley for daytime hunting. Cheetahs are found in open and partially open savannas. Cheetah mothers spend a long time teaching their young how to hunt small live antelopes ski are brought back to the cubs and released so they can chase and catch them. Unlike most other cats, the cheetah usually hunts during daylight, preferring reports early morning or early evening, but is also active on moonlit nights.

Lions may hunt sun at any hour, but they typically valley go after ski large prey at night. reports They hunt together to increase their success rate, since prey can be difficult to catch and can outrun a single lion. The lions fan out along a broad front or semicircle to creep up on sun prey. Once with within striking distance, they bound in among the startled animals, knock one down and kill it with valley a bite to the neck or throat. Hunts are successful about half the time. Cooperative hunting enables lions to take prey as large as wildebeests, ski zebras, buffaloes, young elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes, any of which can provide several meals for the pride. Mice, reports lizards, tortoises, warthogs, antelopes sun and even crocodiles also form part of a lion''s valley diet. Because they often take ski over kills made by hyenas, cheetahs reports and leopards, scavenged food provides more than 50 percent of their diets in areas like the Serengeti plains.

This is your virtual window sun on Africa. valley You can select whether to have your desktop change on a daily, hourly or even near-real-time basis. ski It synchronizes your time zone with the cameras in Africa''s most active wildlife parks. You are guaranteed to see lions and other reports wildlife at least 5 times sun per day. The application is tiny, and does not affect the speed or efficiency of valley your machine - it updates your desktop wallpaper at the interval selected ski by you. The lion is reports said to be majestic, the leopard ferocious and shrewd. But elegant and graceful best describes sun the cheetah. The cheetah is smaller than valley the ski other two cats, but by far the fastest at speeds of 70 miles per hour it can run faster than all other animals. Now restricted to sub-Saharan reports Africa, wild cheetahs once were found in most of Africa, the plains of southern Asia, the Middle East and India.

©2003 www.lodging-adventure-outdoors.com All rights reserved.