• Unlike other felines, cheetahs hunt by chasing their prey rather than ambushing it. They approach their target to within about 10 meters, without hiding.
• The cheetah does not hide its prey for later, unlike, for example, the leopard, and in nature there are no known cases of it returning to it. Remains of its meal attract other predators.

The cheetah eats only meat, stalking prey during the day and catching up to it with a fast run, using a strategy of active hunting and a feeding method – constriction. The cheetah's diet includes gazelles, antelopes, impalas, hares, and rabbits, as well as large mammals such as oryxes, spiral-horned antelopes, water goats, dik-diks, gnu antelopes, hares, and aardvarks. The species’ daily food requirement is from 2 kg to 4 kg, and offspring feed on milk. In some cultures, the cheetah is consumed as food, but it is not considered halal or kosher.