The fastest animals on land, cheetahs are anatomically adapted for high-speed chases. With their reliance on speed and vision to effectively hunt, cheetahs are often associated with savannah habitat. While open grasslands are a vital part of the cheetah’s range, the cats actually occupy a variety of types of habitat, from arid deserts to dense vegetation. In fact, cheetahs once had a distributional range that extended across most of Africa and into Asia, through the Arabian Peninsula to the Casp