Course Info
A certificate course for individuals who are interested in learning more about the worlds’ fastest land-based mammal. This is suitable for students of zoology, wildlife conservation, field guides and other professionals who want to understand more about cheetahs and their conservation.
This course will enable you to understand the subtler aspects of cheetah behaviour and understand some of the threats being faced by this magnificent species, which places them on the IUCN’s ‘Vulnerable’ list.
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What the student will learn
- The cheetah course is an excellent interest course for any BSc student or any student who is going into the guiding industry.
Course Content
- Unit 1
- In this unit we look at the origin and evolution of these felids. We go on to discuss how they have physically adapted to fulfil the niche they are in, in the animal kingdom.
- Unit 2
- We look closely at their various social structures and what defines a cheetah’s home range, in particular relating to the type of habitat in which they live. We also look the differences between the male and female cheetah’s home range. We go on to learn about the cheetah’s reproductive cycle and the early life of the young cubs as well as how cheetah’s communicate.
- Unit 3
- Unit 3 focuses on everything to do with the all important hunting and feeding, why they are the most likely wild felid, to lose their prey to other hunters.
- Unit 4
- Here we focus on the vulnerable status of the cheetah, we discuss the primary threats they are confronting and the steps that conservation groups are putting in place to ensure the cheetah’s ongoing survival.
- Unit 5
- The final unit in the course we take the student through the research protocols from sample collections, capture and translocation with post-release monitoring to Cheetahs in captivity, captive breeding schemes and cheetah husbandry.
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