Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos

[BorneanTiger]

(04-02-2019, 09:34 AM)Sanju Wrote: On the rare animals in the region

Snow leopards are absolutely amazing. It's kind of amazing to watch an animal that kind of runs straight down a cliff side.

But at the end of the day, one of the world's rarest felids is the Asiatic cheetah. And the fact that we have a cheetah in Asia, which is probably going to go extinct in our lifetimes, my heart has to go to that. I'm an extinction biologist, and when I think about animals like the Asiatic cheetah, I'm rooting for its survival.

@Lycaon

Iran is the last place that is confirmed by us humans to have cheetahs, but that doesn't mean that it has to be like that. Aside from what I earlier said about Afghanistan, which is next to Iran, in another region bordering Iran, that is Central Asia, specifically next to areas where Iranian cheetahs are known to exist, such as Miandasht Wildlife Refuge, and a Turkmen horse breeder drew 2 big cats that he allegedly saw: One large with big spots and short legs, and the other that was sleek and had a long tail, calling the latter 'гепард' ('gepard', meaning 'cheetah'): https://www.panthera.org/blog/2017/10/04...lden-horse

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