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Web. The cheetah exhibits several unique skeletal adaptations that mostly act to increase muscle moment arms when compared with the greyhound. A long set of legs plus a flexible spine increase the stride of the cheetah when it is on the run. With the advantage of the laser cutter, we were able to impose a picture we found online onto the slide, allowing for an almost perfect reflection of the cheetah’s skeletal system.
The Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the fastest terrestrial animal in the world and is a unique member of the cat family ‘felidae’. There are approximately 244 bones in a cheetah's skeleton as it is considered a lesser cat and cats have approximately 244 bones. Cheetah Adaptations Dominic Meucci Works Cited "Cheetah Facts for Kids | Big Cats | African Animals." The cheetah has a long tail to help it balance in tight turns. The cheetah’s skeleton is lightweight, unlike the heavy bodies of other big cats. Main organs of respiration are the lungs, where oxygen from the atmosphere diffuses across the thin membrane separating the air in the Alveoli (the smallest, sac-like structures in the air-containing part of the lungs) into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide - the product of the energy-producing reactions in the body - travels in the opposite direction, to be expelled to the atmoshere. The Cheetah is unique for its speed but lacks the ability to climb like other cats. extensively studied the skeletal muscles in the cheetah. It has a very muscular lean body, it does not have alot of muscle but the muscle thats there is all fine tuned to do exactly what it's meant to. Cheetahs rely on their muscular system to enable it to be the world's fasted land animal running at speeds up to 70 miles per hour. Muscle Fibers 83% of the total number of fibers in the vastus lateralis and nearly 61% of the gastrocnemius are comprised of fast-twitch fibers. Hudson et al.
A cheetah's skeleton has been underestimated to being incredibly thin and fragile. They calculated the physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA) and moment arm, and showed that the cheetah exhibits several unique skeletal adaptations that mostly act to increase muscle moment arm (Hudson et al., 2011a, Hudson et al., 2011b).

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Muscle fiber types can be broken The Cheetah appeared on Earth around 4 million years ago, well before the other big cats.

The cheetah is a cat, so it is basically the same skeletal system as a domestic cat with a few minor and major improvements made to allow tremendous speed. This means the cheetah can carry its weight further and faster.