This gentle noise can soothe anyone, even when it originates from a wild animal like one of the cheetah cubs at ...

Spending the night so close to a sleeping cheetah under the Delta’s dazzling Milky Way felt like a dream, apart from the lack of sleep I had, of course. Image above: As a diurnal hunter ...

Tumai is an 8-year-old female cheetah whose name in Swahili means "Hope." She and Zazi ("Fertile"), a 7-year-old female, moved into the National Zoo's new Cheetah Science Facility this past September.

To the reserve's predators – and especially its cheetahs – the tall grass is the best hunting aid of all. We all know about the cheetah's electrifying speed. Large nostrils and an enlarged ...