Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Morphometrics, demographics and genetic viability
3: Diet
4: Prey selection and the impact of cheetah predation on prey populations
5: Twenty-four hour activity patterns and distances moved
6: Hunting behaviour
7: Foraging success
8: Energetics
9: Coexistence and the cheetah's relations with other carnivores.
10: Socio-spatial organisation and spatial ecology
11: Breeding, cub survival and female reproductive success
12: The Mating System
13: Conservation issues around cheetahs
14: Epilogue
Appendices

About the Author

Dr Gus Mills has spent 40 years conducting research on African large carnivores and is currently Research Fellow at the Lewis Foundation, South Africa. He has written five books and authored or co-authored 140 scientific papers, as well as delivered over 80 talks at conferences and symposia worldwide. He is a senior member of several IUCN Carnivore Specialist Groups, including former Chair of the Hyaena Specialist Group, and member of the steering committees of the
Cat Specialist Group and the Canid Specialist Group. He serves as a member on several boards of scientific journals and conservation organisations and has consulted widely on carnivore conservation
issues in Africa and Asia. Margie Mills holds a BSc degree in Zoology from Cape Town University. She worked with her husband, Gus, on the Kalahari hyaenas and cheetahs. She has co-authored a number of scientific papers with him on the brown hyaena and cheetah as well as two books.

Reviews

This book presents an important new chapter in cheetah studies and conservation in Africa..Wildlife ecologists, conservationists, and managers in Africa and beyond will appreciate this book
*Conservation Biology*

The first word of the first chapter of this magnificent monograph is 'adaptation'. One needs read no further to understand the essence of the book and the perspective from which the authors view life. [...] Gus, together with co-author Margie, have delivered an invigorating homage to the Kruukian, indeed ultimately Tinbergian and, dare I say, Oxford approach.
*David W. Macdonald, African Journal of Wildlife Research*

I found this book extremely interesting, loaded as it is with facts and illustrations about the diet, hunting behaviour, breeding and survival of cheetahs. The authors have made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the behaviour and survival of a top predator, and in so doing have joined an elite band of eminent authors in this field.
*Brian W. van Wilgen, South African Journal of Science*