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Cheetahs are sometimes mistaken for leopards because they are the same colour but different spots. They don’t roar like other wild cats, they purr.

Behaviour
The father cheetah marks trees with his claws to show that that is his territory.
When the cubs are about 5 weeks old their mother will take them out and teach them to hunt. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal because of their long, slim muscular body.

Characteristics
When the cubs are born the mother cheetah will live alone with her cubs until they are old enough to be by themselves in the wild. They stand on high rocky outcrops, trees and termite mounds to look for food. Male to be by cheetahs make groups of two – three and will hunt together for the rest of their life. Cheetahs have a streamlined body for running.

Appearance
Cheetahs have everything a leopard has that’s why they are sometimes mistaken for each other.
Cheetahs have a tail, eyes, mouth, legs, long body, nose, spots, ears, whiskers, head.

Natural habitat
The cheetah’s natural habitat is a warm open grassland savannah mainly in Africa. The flat grassland is good for cheetahs because they can run around a lot. The savannah grass has a few trees and logs. The cheetahs habitat is in East Africa, warm deserts, South Western Africa dry places. Cheetahs like big places.

Cheetahs in the wild today
About 20 years ago there were about 100 000 cheetahs in the wild and now there are about 1200 left.

Cheetah’s habitat in zoos
Some habitats are very small and have no toys to play with so it is boring for them. Most zoos have logs and trees for the cheetah to climb, in zoos animals like cheetahs don’t have to hunt for food.

Climate effect
In the rainy season the grass will get holes and will fill up with water and the animals that eat the grass will move and the cheetahs won’t have any food, the grass won’t grow.

Natural predators
Cheetahs have 6 natural predators like lions, hyenas, humans, leopards and wild dogs. The cubs also have eagles as predators because they are so small.

Colour
Cheetahs are yellowish brown with small black spots.

Cheetahs found in zoos or wildlife parks
Many wildlife parks and zoos look after cheetahs like Honolulu zoo, Africa Savannah Wildlife Park, Perth zoo, San Diego zoo, Philadelphia zoo, Hamilton, Wellington, Auckland and Melbourne zoos.

Threatened
Humans kill cheetahs for skin, money and Jewry. People also use cheetah skins to make notebooks for writing in. Some people keep wild animals for pets. Hunters kill animals for fur so they can sell them for lots of money. Farmers kill cheetahs to protect their livestock, farmers graze cattle, sheep and crops so soon wild animals won’t have any habitat.

Food
Cheetahs share their food with hyenas, lions, leopards and lots of other wild cats. Cheetahs eat gazelles, impala, wildebeest, zebra, antelope, warthogs, game birds, springhare and springboks.

Glossary:
Predator: an animal that kills and eats other animals.
Endangered: to endanger something means to cause it to be in a dangerous and harmful situation.
Habitat: the natural home of a plant or animal.
Savannah: big open dry places.
Life Cycle: cheetah’s first cub, then juvenile and last adult.

click on the link to do my cheetah quiz.

http://bit.ly/9ibcMR

We had to do chimp art and follow step by step instructions to draw the chimp. We then had to put in the background.

I am a cheetah
yellow and orange as an oval blazing down from the sky
I sprint through the savannah plains
I pounce on my unsuspecting prey
I can out run all the other land animals
I can protect my cubs from harm
I am a cheetah

Reluctant
is a lonesome cheetah
running flexibly with it's long tail keeping it's balance
over the hot dry grassy savannah
looking for food for it's newly born vulnerable cubs

Field of burnt orange grass, encourages a
trip to the African safari park
to see Cheetah's running free like the water at
Niagara falls tumbling over the
falls into the vast water below.

My book is called "Field trip to Niagara Falls" by Geronimo Stilton.

During Maori food week we looked at different maori words and phrases for food. We then made a comic strip using our new maori words we learnt.
Check out my comic strip by clicking on the link below:

http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/digikids/501357

My plot skeleton writing sample.

An old, dirty Victorian hall is up for sale, the sign has been standing on the un-mowed, overgrown lawn for about a month in Wellington.

No one knows, but it has a ‘staff’ of spooky white ghosts including a scary and fat, tall and cut butler and lots of other tall servants.

It sucks but the frightening white ghosts the colour of clouds moving through the sky on a warm cloudy day, can’t leave the mouldy hall that has cobwebs everywhere.

It is very important to them that they like the new owners wether there young or old because if they don’t like them it will be hard for the owners. If they have to share ‘their’ dirty mouldy hall, they feel they should have a say in who moves in.

One day a series of weird and scared, frightened and terrified people visited the abandon rusty hall to see if they want to buy it.

First a strange big family come, but the misty white ghosts make the whole family all become petrified horrified and terrified so they get frightened off. Next a angry mean head teacher comes in and the white ghosts frighten him off in a different way. It was getting later and just as they were about to close for the night an old couple come in they went a long way until they saw the white ghosts that looked black at night.

Finally a nice young couple visits the ugly red hall. The white see-throw ghosts try and try, but they are not afraid of anything the misty white ghosts do. Eventually they make friends with the see-throw misty ghosts.

The nice young couple buy the dirty and ugly, mouldy and rusty hall. They decided to buy the hall so they could make it become an old mansion. The white misty ghosts take on their old jobs and help the nice young couple to live happily in their new home. One month later their old and rusty, dirty and mouldy house becomes a beautiful mansion in the grassy and huge countryside.

I am quietly going to tell you a very old story. I know very well it is true. It happened 20 years ago in 1887. I have never ever told anyone this before.

He was out walking on a dim and gloomy pitch-black and dusky night when he became lost he was terrified, scared and spooked. It suddenly began to snow like leaves falling from a green bushy tree on a cold winter night.

He knew he could not last the dark, dim night out in the cold and freezing, huge and large open and finally made his way towards a bright shining light. It was a new clean house. He was kindly given some food drink and some shelter.

The owner of the house was very, very strange. He told him a long and interesting, frightening and scary story about something that had happened that cold winter night, three years earlier.

He told me that the rusty and old, brown and muddy mail coach had been travelling in a snow storm the storm was like water gushing down a beautiful waterfall in spring. the dirty and muddy, fat and old horses had slipped and the rusty, muddy mail coach had toppled over a steep and tall, rocky and frightening cliff. The two drivers and four men inside had died.

The weather seemed a little better so he decided to set off again. The weird old owner of the house told him he would meet tonight’s old and rusty, cranky and dirty mail coach if he set off now and quietly but quickly walk past the rocky and slippery, muddy and steep cliff onto the crossroads. It would take him about an hour, but the mouldy mail coach would stop there and he could get a ride.

He set off. He was horrified, petrified and frightened and felt very strange. He lost track of time and felt very scared because he had to be in by 8:30 it became darker and was surprised when heard the mail coach coming, quietly up behind him. It stopped and it’s two weird drivers nodded when he asked if they would give him a lift.

He climbed inside the old and dirty, rotting and batted mail coach and although it was dim and pitch-black, dusty and gloomy, he could see three men inside the coach. He tried to make conversation, but none as the weird, quiet men would talk or speak.

He realised something was very wrong with the batted and aged, rusty and old coach and the weird quiet men inside. He tried to get out but couldn’t. He then heard loud yelling and screaming, felt as if he was flying quickly through the fresh air and then passed out.

He woke up in bed at home two days later. He had been found in a freezing cold snowdrift exactly where the old and aged, dirty and rusty coach had crashed three years ago. Nothing else except some old rotting wood was found there.

The Stone family had been waiting and waiting until they went to the unmowed, grassy countryside in a beautiful wonderful rented cottage.

In the old farmer’s field next to the comfortable cottage there was a terrifying scarecrow. It had ragged clothes and one eye was hanging from string. They were all terrified, petrified and horrified to see how evil it looked.

The oldest child Kate had to sleep downstairs in the living room because her mum and dad wanted the big master bedroom and her little brother Oliver gets second choice and he chose the other bedroom so Kate had to have the living room. The living room was as small and dark as a cupboard in a bedroom on a cold winter night, full of clothes.

The next morning the family goes out but for some reason Kate stays in for breakfast. She cooks herself some sugary pancakes. Kate was in the dusty cold kitchen when the loud phone rings. Kate answers the phone but the only thing she hears is gaudy noisy breathing at the other end. They suddenly hang up.
Kate starts to feel terrified, spooked and scared. It was as if someone was sneakily watching.

Back in the dusty cold kitchen she looks out of the window that has cobwebs everywhere. It is hard to see but Kate notices the ragged scarecrow has gone. Kate is getting more and more scared. She tries to turn on the tiny rusty TV but unfortunately it doesn’t work properly. There is a weird horrifying knock at the door. Kate opens the mouldy door.

Kate looks out the window of the door that is full of disgusting bugs that were like monkeys in a zoo waiting for the zoo keepers to feed them. There was no-one there. She tries and tries to ring her mum’s mobile phone. It rings so loudly that she can hear it from the kitchen. It is in her parents master bedroom, so she quietly runs into their bedroom.

The dusty lifelike scarecrow was standing starring looking through the mouldy brown window. The oldest child was petrified, horrified and terrified. Her delightful happy mum’s loud ringing sound starts going again, but this time for a long time. Kate quickly answers her mother’s mobile phone.

All she can hear is hysterical laughing.