What is Cheetah?
{{Speciesbox | name = Cheetah | fossil_range = [[Pleistocene]]–[[Holocene]], 1.9 mya{{ndash}}present | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite journal | author = Durant, S.; Mitchell, N.; Ipavec, A.; Groom, R. | title = ''Acinonyx jubatus'' | journal = [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] | volume = 2015 | page = e.T219A50649567 | publisher = [[IUCN]] | date = 2015 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/219/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T219A50649567.en | accessdate = 13 January 2018}}</ref> | image = Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) female 2.jpg | image_caption = Female [[Southern African cheetah]]<br>[[KwaZulu Natal]], [[South Africa]] | image2 = Acoustic-Structure-and-Contextual-Use-of-Calls-by-Captive-Male-and-Female-Cheetahs-(Acinonyx-pone.0158546.s001.oga | image2_caption = Acoustic repertoire of cheetahs | taxon = Acinonyx jubatus | authority = ([[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]], 1775) | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision = *[[East African cheetah|''A. j.'']] [[Southern African cheetah|''jubatus'']] <small>(Schreber, 1775)</small> *[[Asiatic cheetah|''A. j. venaticus'']] <small>([[Edward Griffith (zoologist)|Griffith]], 1821)</small> *[[Northeast African cheetah|''A. j. soemmeringii'']] <small>([[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1855)</small> *[[Northwest African cheetah|''A. j. hecki'']] <small>(Hilzheimer, 1913)</small> | synonyms_ref = | range_map = Cheetah_range.gif | range_map_caption = The range of the cheetah {{leftlegend|#FBCEB1|Former range|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#EDAD86|Low density|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#EB713C|Medium density|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#FE2712|High density|outline=gray}} }} [[File:Gepardjagt1 (Acinonyx jubatus).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cheetah in action]] [[File:Acinonyx jubatus Sabi Sand.jpg|thumb|220px|A group of cheetahs in [[South Africa]]]] [[File:Gepard zoo rostock.jpg|thumb|The face of a cheetah]] A '''cheetah''' (''Acinonyx jubatus'') is a medium large [[felidae|cat]] which lives in [[Afric