Editing Cheetah (section)

===Competition===
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Although cheetahs and [[spotted hyena]]s favor different prey, the latter will nevertheless steal cheetah kills with no difficulty, with [[George Schaller]] observing that cheetahs in the Serengeti lost 4% of their kills to them.<ref name=kruuk>{{cite book |last1=Kruuk |first1=H. |title=The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behaviour |year=1972|publisher=University of California Press |location=Chicago and London |chapter=Relations between hyenas and other carnivorous mammals|page=138}}</ref> Cheetahs, particularly females with cubs, may attempt to protect their kills from hyenas by making threatening vocalizations and lunges, but will retreat if the larger carnivores persist.<ref name=Estes/>

In Iran, cheetahs compete with [[leopard]]s for [[chinkara]], [[bezoar ibex]] and [[urial]]. One study undertaken in the Bafq Protected Area found that cheetahs avoided leopards by occupying lower elevations, though one cheetah was nevertheless killed by a leopard during the study.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Farid |last1=Cheraghi |first2=Mahmoud Reza |last2=Delavar |first3=Farshad |last3=Amiraslani |first4=Kazem |last4=Alavipanah |first5=Eliezer |last5=Gurarie |first6=Houman |last6=Jowkar |first7=Luke |last7=Hunter |first8=Stephane |last8=Ostrowski |first9=William F. |last9=Fagan |title=Inter-dependent movements of Asiatic Cheetahs ''Acinonyx jubatus venaticus'' and a Persian Leopard ''Panthera pardus saxicolor'' in a desert environment in Iran (Mammalia: Felidae) |date=2019 |journal=Zoology in the Middle East |url=http://stephane.ostrowski.free.fr/pdf/1-2019-004.pdf |doi=10.1080/09397140.2019.1632538|access-date=14 May 2025}}</ref> Cheetah mothers have however been observed to drive off leopards threatening their cubs.<ref name=Estes/>