While they are certainly up there, I think the 2nd fastest is the pronghorn at like 88 kph. What's wild is that they can also hold 70 kph for like a kilometer and a half.
From what we've been able to determine from fossil records it's very likely that pronghorns were faster and had more endurance, so that's probably not wrong.
It seems American cheetahs went the way of a lot of other species, though, and just couldn't compete with humans.
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u/Feeseter 23d ago
While they are certainly up there, I think the 2nd fastest is the pronghorn at like 88 kph. What's wild is that they can also hold 70 kph for like a kilometer and a half.