Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos

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Rare photographs show cheetahs in snowstorm from south Africa
©Kirsten Frost

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Photographed from Rogge Cloof Nature Reserve,  coldest place in South Africa.photo taken in August of a female by conservationists and two males, are likely the second-known records of African cheetahs in snow. Both cheetahs are two of the 4 reintroduced individuals of Rogge Cloof, a private game reserve as a parts of their native range.

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" Old records confirmed that hunters had once shot cheetah in this part of South Africa. This meant that Rogge Cloof was once part the cheetah’s native range, and suggests that modern-day cheetahs would likely have an innate ability to deal with snow"
This show that the wildcats are much more adaptable than we thought.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2020/09/rare-photographs-show-african-cheetahs-in-snowstorm/amp

• the region has similar in climate and topography to the central Iranian plateau, where asiatic Cheetahs experience snow.
  

Asiatic Cheetahs in snow capped mountain :

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