Cheetah

Kingdom: Animalia

Characteristics that place it here:

• multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells

• rely on other organisms for nourishment

• ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity

• have their own means of locomotion

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here:

• bilaterally symmetrical bodies ( the right and left side of a body are a mirror image of each other.)

• at some point of the life cycle they have a pair of gill silts or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment.

• have a notochord at some phase of their life cycle

• members often have a head, tail and a digestive system with openings at both ends of their body.

Class: Mammalia

Characteristics that place it here:

• Conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the mother

• nourish young with milk produced by the mothers mammary glands

• are heterodonts ( that means that they have a variety of specialized teeth)

• are endothermic ( that means they are warm blooded)

• they have hair and sweat glands

• they have a 4 chambered heart

• they have a complex nervous system

• they have large brains

Order:  Canivora

Characteristics that place it here:

• are meat eaters

• have a first lower molar

• they are medium sized

• have very good senses, vision, and hearing

• they are excellent runners

• have a simple stomach

Family: Felidade

Characteristics that place it here:

• they are hunters

• have short rostrum

• have five toes and four on their hind feet

Genius: Acinonyx

Characteristics that place it here:

• they are all endangered

Species: Acinonyx Jubatus

Characteristics that place it here:

• critically endangered

• mostly extinct

Refrences:

Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ January 10, 2001

Poem:

CUNNING

HOMEOSTASIS

ENERGETIC

ENTHUSIASTIC

TREACHEROUS

ANIMALIA

HORENDOUS