Category: Acinonyx

  • Hope for young cheetahs in Nesles

    Hope for young cheetahs in Nesles

    The Parc des Félins of Nesles (France) as received on the 30th of October, two male cheetahs arriving from the Al-Bustan Zoology Center of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). The managers of the Parc des Félins hope that these new members of the feline community in Nesles, after their initial acclimatation to the environment of French…

  • Cheetah and cubs, in the savanah

    Cheetah and cubs, in the savanah

    This female cheetah has her five cubs following her through the grass savanah, while she goes hunting for them. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Cheetah

    Cheetah

    Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Cheetah and cubs

    Cheetah and cubs

    Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Cheetah and cubs

    Cheetah and cubs

    Super! While in Kenya, I found a little cheetah family: A mother and her 5 cubs (only a few weeks old). Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008. Unfortunately, from what I heard, three of the cubs have been killed by hyenas a few days…

  • Cheetah on the loose in airplane

    It was a Delta Airlines flight from Portland to Atlanta (in the USA) which whose transporting two cheetahs in a cage in the luggage sotre of the plane. But a luggage worker was faced with one of them freely wandering out of cage. The Atlanta zoo provided its support to tranquilize the animals and allow…