The body is completely covered with round, solid black spots. These apparent features, plus a big heart and volumious lungs, have turned cheetah into the fastest land runner in the world. Habitat and Food Cheetah's favourite habitats are broad plains, expanses of rolling hills, steppes and arid regions. Habits Cheetah usually attacks the weakest and the oldest animals of a herd and prefers females to males. Cheetah's extraordinary speed sometimes reaches 110 kilometers with strides of 7 meters lpng, enabling him to run up to 500 meters.
Cheetahs usually hunt in pairs.
They have greater daytime activity but are also active on moonlit nights. Males and females are only seen together during the breeding season. Females are solitary except when they're raising cubs. Breeding Iranian cheetahs start to breed mainly in mid- winter. Cheetahs reach adulthood at the age of one.