- In Africa, the cheetah is the weakest of the large predators. After an unsuccessful hunt, it needs up to half an hour to rest, and hyenas, leopards, and lions may steal its prey.
The African cheetah occupies biogeographical regions of Afrotropics and Palearctics. The species is found in Somalian acacia-commiphora scrublands and woodlands, Southern acacia-commiphora scrublands and thickets, West Congo forest-savanna, Limpopo lowveld, and Zambezian mopane woodlands.