CHEETAH, OR HUNTING LEOPARD. Of the wild members of the Cat family this animal is the most easily tamed. It is sometimes called the Hunting Leopard, in India and elsewhere is used in the hunting of Antelopes. It is carried blindfolded in a two-wheeled Ox-cart until the herd is seen, when it is turned loose. It approaches the herd with cat-like stealth until near enough to spring upon the Antelope, whose jugular vein it severs with a bite and whose warm blood it drinks as its share of the booty. (Cyanailaurus jubatus.)
Date 1895
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6220157425 Author Alfred Edmund Brehm; Wilhelm Haacke; Eduard Pechuël-Loesche; Richard Schmidtlein.
Full title Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brehm%27s_Life_of_animals_(Page_137)_(6220157425).jpg
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae that occurs mainly in eastern and southern Africa and a few parts of Iran.
