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

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

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