Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus)

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This is filmed in the state of Bhavnagar (Saurashtra- Gujarat). Recently published in book on Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji contains reference to National Geographic channel. This maharaja had Cheetahs freely roaming within Palace. When Mahatma Gandhi visited the maharaja, one cheetah groaned/hissed but did nothing. The mahatma said: I have been trying to teach Indians in South Africa since two decades but you have trained cheetah to maintain restrain! (lol-he don't know cheetah is the least hostile and aggressive wild medium sized cat in the world and most docile). 
Black bucks are not killed by farmers to-day but they are not as fanatics as Bishnois [(also known as Vishnoi) is an eco-friendly Hindu religious sect or community found in the Western Thar Desert and northern states of India who follow a set of 29 principles/commandments given by Guru Jambheshwar (1451-1536)] of Rajasthan. Wild animals can not be expected to follow such practices.
Black bucks. Bishnoi, Rajasthan
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They are the most dedicated conservational common people/community in the world not IMO, its universal. How much dedication? women even allow to suckle/breast feed gazelles and deer fawns alongside their own human neonatal infants/babies.

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A Similar hunting video with a cheetah in an Arabian country.

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The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus), which was declared extinct in India over 60 years ago. It is the best of the big cats with high successful hunting skills and fastest land mammal on the planet. They are one of the most friendly wild animals on earth followed by jaguar and gir lions with little to no aggression. It had never harmed humanity with no recorded human fatalities in human history but some horrible ass holes killed them for sport and fun. Still in Iran, the Iranian cheetah is being killed because the herders are unable to distinguish between cheetah and leopard and consider it as a threat to live stock and themselves, many are killed by poaching and road accidents every year and the Iranian government running out of funds for conservation of Asiatic cheetah because US government stopped supporting them. So, conservation of these magnificent creatures is going difficulty.

Simple reason for their extinction is the Asiatic cheetah (hunting leopard-vernacular name) is disbelieved as leopard or any other big cat and considered as a threat to people and cattle by villagers and farmers.

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Kings and hunters killed them for fun, prestige and trophy hunting during 1900’s and at last in 1947, an idiot Maharaja of Surguja, the ruler of a princely state in Madhya Pradesh shot dead the last three cheetahs. 'He (Maharaja of Surguja) also bears the dark honor of holding the record for shooting the most tigers — a total of 1,360', states a July 2009 report by The Tribune .

But not all cheetahs in India were hunted down. 'Studies show that at least 200 cheetahs were killed in India during the colonial period mainly due to conflicts with sheep and goat herders, and not because they were shot by trophy hunters', states a report by the BBC . 

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Asiatic cheetah cubs with a dog in Dharwar, British India, 1897.

Some kings like Mughal emperor Akbar he reportedly as it was his favorite animal and had an army of 1,000 cheetahs which accompanied him on his hunting expeditions. Cheetah is a very shy animal and they reproduce very very rare in captivity. baring thousands of them in captivity, they almost didn’t reproduce and all were dead and gave off springs. The only way to save these species is assisted reproduction. These things make them extinct in India and the same thing might have happened in many other south-west Asian countries for other wild animals too, except last surviving population in Iran’s reserves with about less than 40 individuals which are going extinction coming few 2 to 3 years.

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Hunting of the blackbuck with the Indian cheetah; Drawn by James Forbes in South Gujarat, Western India. Oriental Memoirs, 1812.

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Maharajah Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo shot three of the last cheetahs in India in 1948, in Surguja State, Madhya Pradesh. His private secretary submitted this photo to the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.

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Asiatic cheetah cubs in Dharwar, 1897

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Hunting of the blackbuck with the Indian cheetah; Drawn by James Forbes in South Gujarat, Western India. Oriental Memoirs, 1812.

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A cheetah with two imperial attendants, during the reign of Shah Alam II (India CE 1764)

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South Asian Nawabs with cheetahs

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Coat of arms of former Kolhapur State with two Asiatic cheetahs proper as supporters

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A painting depicting Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, hunting with locally trapped Indian cheetahs, c. 1602. Reply