Described and Ilustrated with Photographs by W. 
THE beautiful pair of Cheetahs which Colonel 
Cheetah, or Mahon presented to the Society 
Hunting are both dead. In its natural 
Eeopatd evild state, the cheetah’s food 
consists of the smaller quadrupeds and such 
birds as it can catch alive; and when kept 
CHEETAH. 
abroad by the hunters is similarly fed. In 
this country there is a certain class of persons 
who think it most cruel to feed animals on 
live food, even when the animals will starve 
to death unless fed on food they kill them- 
PR. DANDO, F.Z.S. 
selves (which was literally the case with 
these two specimens, for they absolutely 
refused to eat). I understand the Zoological 
Society has been summoned by another 
society for feeding the python on live goats. 
We shall, no doubt, have some very interest- 
ing evidence on the subject. The 
cheetah is an elegantly-formed and 
beautifully-marked creature, and is 
called by the natives “ Youze,” or 
hunting cat. Although the title of 
“Hunting Leopard” is popularly 
applied to the cheetah, 1t can lay 
little claim to this pardine title, as 
the speed of the animal is not very 
ereat and it has but lttleendurance, 
and is unable to clmb trees like 
the leopard on account of its claws 
being but partially retractile, and 
they are less curved and pointed 
than those of the leopard. The 
Cheetah’s limbs are long and 
slender, and devoid of that mus- 
cular power which les latent im 
the limbs of the true leopard, 
shown to advantage in the photo- 
eraph of “Major” on page 89 of 
ANIMAL LIFE. 
wis 
Muc# interest has been aroused at the Zoo 
The King’s by the presentation by His 
Cross-bred Majesty the King of a hybrid 
La NRE Zebra, a cross-breed between 
a stallion horse and a Burchell’s zebra mare. 
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