Cheetahs Reproduction
Maturing very fast, males are ready to mate when they are one year old and females will be ready to do so when they are two years old. Male and female cheetahs will mate with many different members of the opposite sex during their lifetime. After a female gives birth, she will feed the cubs milk from her body, protect them from predators, begin teaching them to hunt, and eventually leave them alone at one year of age.
Mating Season Unlike most other big wild cats, cheetahs breed throughout the year without a regular mating season. However, the seasons where there is a better food supply is when most of the breeding will happen.
The pregnancy period will last for approximately three months and the male cheetah will not remain with the female after mating.
Female cheetahs can give birth to a litter of up to eight cubs. Since the young cheetahs are at particular danger of attack from predators, the cubs have a distinctive smoky coat color with wooly hair down their backs to camouflage them in the tall grass.
Mating Season Unlike most other big wild cats, cheetahs breed throughout the year without a regular mating season. However, the seasons where there is a better food supply is when most of the breeding will happen.
The pregnancy period will last for approximately three months and the male cheetah will not remain with the female after mating.
Female cheetahs can give birth to a litter of up to eight cubs. Since the young cheetahs are at particular danger of attack from predators, the cubs have a distinctive smoky coat color with wooly hair down their backs to camouflage them in the tall grass.