time for some bonding and grooming after the feast - 2 adolescent cheetahs (at least one is male) after they had fed on a gazelle and gone to rest in the shade
in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania
" As per a study published on Monday, just around 7,100 cheetahs remain in the wild across Africa and in a small area of Iran as human encroachment has pushed the predator out of 91 per cent of its natural habitats.
Lead study author Dr. Sarah Durant, a cheetah expert at the Zoological Society of London, suggested that the predator should be defined as “endangered” on the official watch list of threatened species worldwide. Currently, the predator considered as a “vulnerable” species on the list.
Sounding the alarm, Dr. Durant said, “Our findings show that the large space requirements for the cheetah, coupled with the complex range of threats faced by the species in the wild, mean that it is likely to be much more vulnerable to extinction than was previously thought.” "
http://perfscience.com/content/2145198-conservationists-want-cheetahs-be-def...ngered-species
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