1. Lions. Lions are the apex predators of the African savanna. While their preferred prey includes zebras, buffalo, wildebeests, and warthogs, lions are opportunistic and will prey on a wide variety of other animals, including the occasional cheetah.
Lions, leopards, and hyenas will try to prey upon cheetah, particularly cheetah cubs. Because they are so fast, adult cheetahs are difficult to catch.
Since this is a close-range fight, a lot of the battle comes down to size and power— the lion has advantages in both of those elements. The most likely outcome is that the two large cats tussle and roll, and the lion uses its strong paws and sharp claws to dig into the cheetah, doing serious damage.
Pronghorn can sustain blazing speeds for miles, and in a distance, run would easily beat a cheetah without breaking a sweat.
The average body mass of an adult female cheetah is 36 kilograms, considerably less than an adult spotted hyena that can weigh up to 82 kilograms. Indeed, spotted hyenas are often implicated in the decline in cheetah populations, partly because they kill cheetahs and steal their kills.
One animal that cheetahs are more afraid of is hyenas. Hyenas have strong bites that can easily crush the bones of any other animal, including cheetahs, and this scares cheetahs the most.
While it would depend on the size, age and aggressiveness of the specific animals involved, generally tigers have a significant advantage. On average tigers are larger, but more importantly they are more capable of fighting standing on their hind legs.
Hyenas may be on somewhat equal footing with cheetahs, but unless they vastly outnumber lions, the so-called king of the jungle will easily kill them. In this video, a rather bold hyena comes sniffing around two cheetahs lying in the grass.
The Cheetah's speed and agility would undoubtedly be its biggest advantages in a fight with a Gorilla. Although the Gorilla is much larger and stronger, the Cheetah's ability to move quickly and fluidly would make it difficult for the Gorilla to catch or strike it.
In a tradeoff for having various adaptations needed for rapid acceleration to pursue prey, such as a reduced muzzle and smaller skull size, cheetahs have weak jaws and smaller canine teeth compared to other large cats. This leaves cheetahs vulnerable when it comes to defending captured prey from other larger predators.
A jaguar would beat a cheetah in a fight. Cheetahs are faster than jaguars, but that's the only advantage they would have in a one-on-one fight. Either way, both animals would have to clash with each other to kill, and jaguars have the size, weight, and power to kill a cheetah.
However, the small anatomy of the cheetah quickly becomes a disadvantage when battling a tiger face-to-face. Tigers are bigger, stronger, and made to wrestle. Once these two big cats started to brawl, the tiger would quickly come out on top.
Lions. Lions are the apex predators of the African savanna. While their preferred prey includes zebras, buffalo, wildebeests, and warthogs, lions are opportunistic and will prey on a wide variety of other animals, including the occasional cheetah.
Overall Strongest: Tiger
It's the strongest wild cat in terms of strength and size. The largest cat is also a member of the Panthera genus and beats the lion in terms of strength, speed, aggression, fighting skills, and coordination. Its large size is a factor that makes it the strongest cat in the world.
Tigers are the largest and most powerful of all cats, and some of the most powerful mammals in the world. They are found in parts of Asia, especially in the southern and eastern parts of the continent.
In either case, a tiger is almost always the most dangerous cat in its habitat. You can discover more about this fierce and solitary predator, one of the deadliest cats, here.
A cheetah will back down from a lion, leopard, or hyena - but have been known to kill individual (not packs) African Wild Dogs. A man vs. cheetah altercation would likely result in serious injuries to the human, but if they know how to handle themselves, likely also the death of the cheetah. ...
Cheetahs are built for speed, but they cannot outrun a poacher's bullet. 90 percent of the cheetah population has disappeared from the wild over the last century, and conservation experts warn that cheetah populations continue to collapse in the wild, in large part due to poaching.
Currently, the world's fastest human being is Jamaican Usain Bolt. He set the world record in the 100-meter dash in 2009 with a blistering time of only 9.58 seconds. That equates to a speed of just over 23 miles per hour. That's fast, but it's no match for the cheetah!
According to an African legend, the marks originated from a female cheetah who cried for months for her missing cubs. Her tears formed two permanent tear marks which were passed on to her new cubs.
Hyenas are only scared of male lions - YouTube.