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. Past and Present Situation of Cheetahs Athough cheetah is the Fastest runner on land, it is in serius danger of extinction, to the point that if current trends continue, the world will experience the loss of one of the most beautiful and valuable animals. The Iranian cheetah has disappeared from those regions that once formed its habitat, and the only surviving population, wich total between 50-200, live in Iran. This small number points to the reality that Iranian cheetahs are in danger of extinction and unless a serious programme of protection is devised, this species will face extinction as did the Iranian lion and tiger before it.