Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos

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See the investigated boundary areas near Pak and Afghan borders.
35. Hamoun, 36. Bampou, 7. Golestan, 8. Takhti Iran & 9. Miandasht

Pakistan: Roberts 1997; Husain 2001; Afghanistan: Manati and Nogge 2008; Turkmenistan: Jackson 1998

Firouz (1971) noted the presence of the cheetahs around Hamoun Lake (N30.852463°/E61.610946°) near the Afghanistan border. Just across the border, cheetah was known in the Helmand Basin (N32.298193°/E62.248415°) in Afghanistan (Hassinger 1973). Roberts (1997) presented sporadic reports on the cheetah’s presence in western Pakistan before its extinction; he assumed Pakistan individuals were largely vagrants from extreme southwest Baluchistan, Iran where cheetahs persisted. A specimen was obtained from Bampour (N27.166983°/E60.512851°) in Iran’s Sistan–Baluchistan Province in 1960s (Lay 1967).

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The cheetahs were known to exist in parts of western Afghanistan (Habibi 2003), notably near Herat (Aitchison 1889). It is plausible that very few individuals still occur near the border with Iran (Manati and Nogge 2008)

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