Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game.
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Examples for "cheetah"
Examples for "cheetah"
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A cheetah is seen in the Masai Mara in Kenya July 2009.
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But the Kenyan cheetah's average is still faster than Sarah's top speed.
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Using gold acrylic paint, I free-hand painted the heart and cheetah prints.
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But when it comes to sprinting, the cheetah is nature's gold medallist.
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Be prepared to make like a crocodile, cheetah or even a crab.
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Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus) UK Viewers can tune into the new documentary series Animal Babies on BBC One which starts on Sunday 2nd October.
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There are two distinct species of the leopard in Ceylon-viz., the "chetah," and the "leopard" or "panther."
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The "chetah" is much smaller than the leopard, seldom exceeding seven feet from the nose to the end of tile tail.
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About one-sixth of them were at Chetah and in its vicinity.
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You will find mud either soft or frozen most of the way to Chetah.
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Both leopards and chetahs are frequently caught at Newera Ellia.
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The prisoners at Chetah were laboring on the streets, preparing logs for house-building, or erecting fences.
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Our leave-taking consumed much time and champagne, and it was nearly sunset before we left Chetah.
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We met several carts, one-horse affairs on two wheels, laden with hay for the Chetah market.
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On leaving Chetah we crossed a frozen stream tributary to the Ingodah, and proceeded rapidly over an excellent road.
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The reason was not explained to me, but probably the general configuration of the country is much like that near Chetah.
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On reaching the town we drove to the house of Mr. Pantoukin, a brother of an officer I met at Chetah.
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In Ceylon all leopards are termed "chetahs" which proceeds from the general ignorance of the presence of the two species.
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He arrived in Chetah a month before my visit, and was just opening a stock of goods to trade with the natives.
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Chetah stands on the left bank of the Ingodah, nearly three hundred miles above Stratensk, and is the capital of the Trans-Baikal province.
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Among the prisoners at the time of my journey there was a Colonel Zyklinski confined in prison at a village north of Chetah.
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The country was more open than on the other side of Chetah, and the road had suffered little in the rains and succeeding cold.