Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos

[Acinonyx sp.]

Resy and her daughters

We first met this female  in November of 2001 near the Mara Research Station, and gave her name Resy. She was fully grown female, estimated to be about 2 years old.


Resy in 2011

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In July 2011, while looking through cheetah pictures taken in 2008 by professional wildlife photographer Federico Veronesi (www.federicoveronesi.com), I found Resy with three small cubs.  Of the three, she successfully raised one male. She was 9 years old at the time the pictures were taken.

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Resy with her cubs in 2008

We saw Resy again in November 2011 with two sub-adult female cubs. She was 12 years old by that time. It is very important to monitor cheetahs until their death to help estimate the lifespan of Mara cheetahs.


ROSA – RESY’s DAUGHTER 

At 10:00 of the 28th of March, 2013 we found F26 in Sopa area. She had a wound on her left hip area. At 13:30 a male impala passes by 5m from her but she does not chase the impala instead kept an eye on it as it passed by until it joined a group of 2 female impalas. This is when Rosastood up and stalked this group and suddenly burst into a full speed chase on a female impala and puts her down within two minutes.

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She then dragged the kill under a shade and sat looking around for almost 45  minutes before eating. During this time, a hyena shows up 80m away, sniffs the air and leaves for where it came from. F26 embarked on eating but with alternating moments of looking around. At 17:08 Rosa leaves the kill and moves  uphill. Hardly had she left the sight, Vultures had their landing gears down onto the kill with their noises attracting the black backed jackal who chases the vultures and takes over the kill. Minutes later, a hyena, suspectadly the one same one shows up scares the vultures and jackal away from the kill and picks up the whole carcass and runs away with it!

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