🐆Cheetah

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Sex not specified in source; value is the midpoint of the published range.

Source: Krausman & Morales 2005, Mammalian Species 771, p.2 · see citation

MEASURED: mean of three timed runs over a 201.2 m course with a running start (29 m/s). The fastest speed ever recorded from a FREE-RANGING cheetah is lower -- 93 km/h across 367 hunts by GPS and inertial collar (Wilson et al. 2013, Nature 498:185) -- and most hunts were far slower. Hirt's 120 km/h is speedofanimals.com.

Source: Sharp 1997, J Zool 241:493 (timed run) · see citation

Canine bite modelled by the dry-skull method (Thomason 1991) from a prepared skull; static bite at the canines, gape not stated. Not a live measurement. The skull's estimated body mass was 29.5 kg.

Source: Wroe, McHenry & Thomason 2005, Proc R Soc B 272:619, Table 1 · see citation

Bite force normalised for body mass: the residual of canine bite force regressed on body mass, average across the sample set to 100. Above 100 means the animal bites harder than its size predicts. Do not cross-check against Wikipedia's BFQ table, which silently mixes this paper with Christiansen & Wroe 2007 and cites a popular-science book.

Source: Wroe, McHenry & Thomason 2005, Proc R Soc B 272:619, Table 1 · see citation

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.