VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

PANTHER AND CHEETAH

Panther (Panthera pardus)

• Highly adaptable to different environmental conditions
• Frequent encounters are with man are due to the habits of the panther.
• Considerable color variations are seen. Sleek short haired felids with a fulvous or bright fulvous coat marked with small and closely knit black rosettes
• Follows roads or pathways.
• Can carry a full-grown chital stag in its mouth.

Cheetah  (Acinonyx jubatus)

• Also called as hunting leopard
• Long-legged felid with slim build & non-retractile claws are seen.
• Coat varies from tawny to pale buff and is having a solid close-set black spots.
• Deep outline of forehead and dome –like cranium.
• Prefers open grass lands
• Can attain a speed of 110 kms an hour faster than the fastest greyhound and can keep it for about 366 mt