The cheetah is known for its title of world’s fastest land mammal—reaching speeds of 60 miles per hour in only three seconds. What most people probably don’t know about cheetahs is that they often get their food stolen.

“Cheetahs are wimps,” says Luke Dollar, a biologist who leads National Geographic Society’s Big Cats Initiative.

Dollar went on to describe cheetahs as gracile, or in other words, built for speed, not combat. “They’re not particularly robust when it comes to confronting any of the similarly sized predators that are out there.”

So when a pack of African wild dogs, also called painted dogs, zeroes in on a cheetah kill they have little to no chance of claiming victory.

Wild dogs, Dollar