Sentences with phrase «of cheetahs in»

I can very quickly tell you that two - thirds of the populations of cheetahs in those 28 countries are going to be extinct in the very near future.

Not exact matches

Part of Cheetah Mobile's mission is to become a bridge to help companies from China go overseas and reach other markets, and identify brands that could reach markets in China.

Cheetah Global has come out with freshly - minted statistics on the state of the bike rental economy in the world.

Already the fund has been responsible for returning vast swaths of land to their natural state, in the USA and elsewhere and has largely been credited for ensuring the survival of the tiger, cheetah and mountain gorilla.

«We've just hit the reset button in our understanding of how close cheetahs are to extinction.

The cheetah is a nice example of the consequences of low genetic diversity; however, it should be noted that a founding pair of two would invariably produce far less genetic diversity than we see in modern cheetah populations.

Hollywood films followed, along with well - known lovers, global tours, monkey and peacock and cheetah pets, work with the Resistance during the war, charges of anti-Americanism and fellow - traveling, stays in Cuba as the personal guest of Castro, opposition to segregation in the United States, and a turn at the microphone at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.

The Flagstone Cheetah Reserve range of wines, currently sold through Morrisons in the UK, was created specifically to help raise funds for the sanctuary with 10p from every bottle sold going to the Trust.

But in doing so, a cheetah doesn't elevate the rest of us.

Our crystal encrusted glamor cats, lavender daisies, cheetah ears in brass and swirling cat woman with spirals and spikes are styled with the coolest of cool, including Vera Wang and Marchesa.

Hip and Eco-Friendly: The Belle comes in a wide variety of stylish fabrics like the hip cheetah and cherry patterns shown here.

Ora Delphine was kind enough to give away a Mia Wristlet in Emerald Cheetah Calf Hair to one of SWA's lucky readers!

Among his corporate entities are; Menzgold Ghana limited, Brew Marketing Consult co. ltd, Cheetah Security Co. ltd, Brew Builders and Planners Co. Ltd, Zylofon Media Co. Ltd, Brew Energy Co. Ltd, Menzgold EspanaS.L (Madrid, Spain) and several others businesses under, T.I.A. Holdings in the United States of America».

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

The decline of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), classified as «vulnerable» by the IUCN, led to the coordination of captive breeding programs in zoos and other breeding facilities.

Overall, cheetahs and lions are more athletic than the impalas and zebras they chase, but prey still have a chance, says Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College of the University of London in Hatfield.

Biomechanics of predator - prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala.

Now we have a cheetah project there, and some of the animals are wearing radio collars, and Iran is very supportive in that work.

The first camera - trap photographs of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah have been taken in Algeria.

Alan Wilson's Structure and Motion Laboratory developed a collar to track cheetahs» hunting behavior and movement patterns in the wild at the level of individual footfalls.

Ten - year - old photographer Leon Petrinos, on his first safari through the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, caught the gaze of a cheetah who had just finished eating an impala.

Out on the delta, Wilson's team produced the first close tracking of cheetahs hunting in the wild — and revelations that a remarkable ability to brake sharply and pivot may be as important for hunting success as the cat's rocket - like acceleration.

Roughly one - quarter of 367 hunts recorded in Botswana ended in capture of prey — usually impala, although one male cheetah, named Qamar, frequently hunted warthog in thicker vegetation.

Yet we're only now grasping the true athleticism of the world's fastest sprinter in its natural habitat, thanks to the work of a former competitive runner who wanted to understand «the enigma of the cheetah.»

This story touches on four hot issues: a drought stretching into its fifth year that is having devastating consequences, especially in central Iran; a controversial plan to transform Iran's only island in the Caspian Sea into a tourism hub; alarming declines of Iran's forests due to wildfires, conversion to cropland, logging, and urbanization; and efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah from extinction.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

The organization found that eBay sites in six countries were selling endangered wildlife products, including elephant ivory and hides, turtle shells, and skins from leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, lizards and crocodiles; two thirds of all endangered species products listed on eBay had U.S. sellers.

«By using high - tech equipment to look deep inside the skulls of modern and fossil cat species, we have discovered that there was a decoupling of locomotor and sensory system adaptations to high - speed predation in the cheetah lineage,» Grohé said.

The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports and led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, finds that the inner ear of modern cheetahs is unique and likely evolved relatively recently.

«If you watch a cheetah run in slow motion, you'll see incredible feats of movement: its legs, its back, its muscles all move with such coordinated power.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

In addition to having longer stride lengths, cheetahs can increase the number of strides they make per second as they accelerate.

The animal is the lynchpin of Madagascar's ecosystem, he believes, filling the same role that lions, cheetahs, and leopards combined fill in Africa.

Hamilton James was came across these cheetahs while filming lions around the Gol Kopjes area of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

«As you might expect of the fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah makes very efficient use of its energy,» Folkertsma explains.

Cheetahs are also able to store a lot of energy in their muscles for later use.

He worries, however, that in an effort to please tourists, game managers will increase the numbers of large predators in reserves, putting the cheetahs at greater risk of having their meals stolen out from under them.

Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), the «cheetah - cub robot,» a small - size quadruped prototype robot, is described in an article appearing today in the International Journal of Robotics Research.

So instead of lolling about like lizards in artwork, they careen about like cheetahs.

Yet the king cheetah's markings — stripes as well as spots — and its habit of lurking in the woody margins of plains differ from its relative.

In the end, though, the simple view is that solitary cheetahs may just more easily avoid lions than large packs of dogs.

As researchers report today in the The International Journal of Robotics Research, Cheetah - cub self - adjusts its movement as needed because of three springs in each leg that adapt dynamically to the irregularities in its stride.

In the first, published May 2 in PLOS ONE, Femke Broekhuis and Arjun Gopalaswamy of the University of Oxford counted cheetahs in Kenya's Maasai Mara National ReservIn the first, published May 2 in PLOS ONE, Femke Broekhuis and Arjun Gopalaswamy of the University of Oxford counted cheetahs in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reservin PLOS ONE, Femke Broekhuis and Arjun Gopalaswamy of the University of Oxford counted cheetahs in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reservin Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.

In his letter, Collyn Rivers informed us of his experiences of tame cheetahs, to which Henry Nicholls replied that attempts...

Boston Dynamics has several other robots in the works for the military, including its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) and a fleet - footed newcomer called Cheetah that can run nearly 30 kilometers per hour, breaking the 21 kph land speed record for legged robots set in 1989 at the Leg Laboratory, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

«Indeed, work on the Cheetah robot has already forced us to rethink how a back works in locomotion to increase running speed, and to create better models for the measurement and exchange of momentum in legged locomotion.»

But some pairs of species appear to be «aggregated,» meaning they tend to appear together in nature more often than one would expect by chance — like cheetahs and giraffes who both depend on savannah habitats.

The study took place during summer, within the Tusk Trust Cheetah Rehabilitation Camp (4000 ha) of the AfriCat Foundation (20 ° 50 ′ S 16 ° 38 ′ E), in central Namibia.

They hope to fill in the genetic blanks by studying the genes of similar cheetah populations in modern - day Iran.

Conservationists have found starving cheetahs that lost their sight after streaking through bush encroached habitats in pursuit of fleet footed food