Editing Cheetah (section)

===In culture===
[[File:Titian Bacchus and Ariadne.jpg|thumb|''[[Bacchus and Ariadne]]'' by [[Titian]], 1523|alt=The painting ''Bacchus and Ariadne'' depicting two cheetahs drawing the chariot of Bacchus]]

The cheetah has been widely portrayed in a variety of artistic works. In ''[[Bacchus and Ariadne]]'', an [[oil painting]] by the 16th-century Italian painter [[Titian]], the chariot of the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] god [[Dionysus]] (Bacchus) is depicted as being drawn by two cheetahs. The cheetahs in the painting were previously considered to be leopards.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tresidder |first=W. |title=The cheetahs in Titian's ''Bacchus and Ariadne'' |journal=[[The Burlington Magazine]] |year=1981 |volume=123 |issue=941 |pages=481–483 |jstor=880424}}</ref> In 1764, English painter [[George Stubbs]] commemorated the gifting of a cheetah to [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] by the English Governor of [[Madras]], [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot|Sir George Pigot]] in his painting ''Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag''. The painting depicts a cheetah, hooded and collared by two Indian servants, along with a [[stag]] it was supposed to prey upon.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fisher |first=M. H. |title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain 1600–1857 |date=2004 |publisher=Permanent Black |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-8178-240-770|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA50 |pages=50–102 |chapter=Indians in Britain as British colonial conquests begin (1750s-1790s)|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015517/https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA50|url-status=live}}</ref> The 1896 painting ''The Caress'' by the 19th-century Belgian [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist painter]] [[Fernand Khnopff]] is a representation of the myth of [[Oedipus]] and the [[Sphinx]] and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body.<ref>{{cite book |last=Edmunds |first=L. |title=Oedipus |date=2006 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=Abingdon |isbn=978-1134-331-284|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rut-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA100 |pages=100–128 |chapter=The inward turn: nineteenth and twentieth centuries|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015444/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rut-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Fernand Khnopff - Caresses - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Caress'' by [[Fernand Khnopff]], 1896|alt=The painting ''The Caress'' depicting a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body]]
Two cheetahs are depicted standing upright and supporting a crown in the [[coat of arms]] of the [[Free State (province)|Free State]] (South Africa).<ref>{{cite web |title=Free State coat of arms |url=https://southafrica.co.za/free-state-coat-of-arms.html |website=South Africa Online |access-date=25 April 2020 |archive-date=16 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116175041/https://southafrica.co.za/free-state-coat-of-arms.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1969, [[Joy Adamson]], of ''[[Born Free]]'' fame, wrote ''The Spotted Sphinx'', a biography of her pet cheetah Pippa.<ref>{{cite book |last=Duncan |first=J. |title=Ahead of their Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-taking Women |date=2002 |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |location=Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-316-609 |chapter=Joy Freiderike Victoria Gessner Adamson |pages=7–11|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpkN_MX0HMcC&pg=PA7|access-date=14 February 2022|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015516/https://books.google.com/books?id=GpkN_MX0HMcC&pg=PA7|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Hussein, An Entertainment]]'', a novel by [[Patrick O'Brian]] set in the [[British Raj]] period in India, illustrates the practice of royalty keeping and training cheetahs to hunt antelopes.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Towheed|editor-first=S. |last=Ranasinha |first=R. |title=New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780–1947 |date=2014 |publisher=Ibidem-Verlag |location=Stuttgart|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFcxBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 |chapter=Cultural contestations in the literary marketplace: reading Raja Rao's ''Kanthapura'' and Aubrey Menen's ''The Prevalence of Witches'' |pages=279–301 |isbn=978-3-8382-5673-3|access-date=14 February 2022|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015516/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFcxBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|url-status=live}}</ref> The book ''[[How It Was with Dooms]]'' tells the true story of a family raising an orphaned cheetah cub named Dooms in Kenya. The 2005 film [[Duma (2005 film)|''Duma'']] was based loosely on this book.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ebert |first=R. |title=Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 |date=2007 |publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing]] |location=Missouri |isbn=978-0740-761-577 |pages=195–196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbAEim_dVQkC&pg=PA195|access-date=14 February 2022|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015516/https://books.google.com/books?id=SbAEim_dVQkC&pg=PA195|url-status=live}}</ref> The animated series ''[[ThunderCats]]'' had a character named "Cheetara", an anthropomorphic cheetah, voiced by [[Lynne Lipton]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Terrace |first=V. |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=North Carolina |isbn=978-0-7864-8641-0 |page=1083 |edition=Second |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&pg=PA1083|access-date=14 February 2022|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308005831/https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&pg=PA1083|url-status=live}}</ref> Comic book heroine [[Wonder Woman]]'s chief adversary is Barbara Ann Minerva alias [[Cheetah (comics)|The Cheetah]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Wallace |first=D. |title=The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe |date=2008 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7566-4119-1 |page=80}}</ref>

The [[Bill Thomas Cheetah]] American racing car, a [[Chevrolet]]-based coupe first designed and driven in 1963, was never [[Homologation (motorsport)|homologated]] for competition beyond prototype status; its production ended in 1966.<ref>{{cite web |title=The cobra and the cheetah: a muscle car tale (part two) |last=Schreiber |first=R. |website=[[The Truth About Cars]] |date=2010 |access-date=20 December 2019 |url=https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/09/the-cobra-and-the-cheetah-a-muscle-car-tale-part-two/ |archive-date=20 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220114048/https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/09/the-cobra-and-the-cheetah-a-muscle-car-tale-part-two/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1986, [[Frito-Lay]] introduced [[Chester Cheetah]], an [[anthropomorphic]] cheetah, as the mascot for their snack food [[Cheetos]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Johnson |first=J. K. |title=American Advertising in Poland: A Study of Cultural Interactions since 1990 |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=North Carolina |isbn=978-0-7864-3797-9 |pages=116–140|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbAEim_dVQkC&pg=PA116 |chapter=When the chips are down: Frito-Lay Poland|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328015530/https://books.google.com/books?id=SbAEim_dVQkC&pg=PA116|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Mac OS X 10.0]] was code-named "Cheetah".<ref>{{cite news |last=Moreau |first=S. |date=2016 |title=The evolution of macOS (and Mac OS X) |website=[[Computerworld]] |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/3692528/evolution-of-macos-and-mac-os-x.html |access-date=25 March 2016 |archive-date=6 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506020757/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3692528/evolution-of-macos-and-mac-os-x.html |url-status=live}}</ref>