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asiatic cheetah national geographic
A cheetah will on average have around 2,000 black spots. Experts have rebutted claims camera traps could be used to spy on sensitive military installations. Cheetahs can be found in Africa and there is a small population of Asiatic cheetahs in Iran, Asia. Genetically distinct and isolated from its African counterparts for at least 32,000 years, the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus ssp. Cheetahs thrive in areas with vast expanses of land where prey is abundant. Their legs are shorter, their coat thicker and their neck is more powerful. This week, National Geographic magazine published extraordinary new images of wild Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. In Namibia, cheetahs live in a variety of habitats, including grasslands, savannahs, dense vegetation and mountainous terrain.

He is a committee member of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative. After a chase, a cheetah needs half an hour to catch its breath before it can eat. That’s down from an estimated 14,000 cheetahs in 1975, when researchers made the last comprehensive count of the animals across the African continent, Hunter says. This photograph of an Asiatic cheetah in Iran's Naybandan Wildlife Reserve was taken by a low-resolution camera trap laid by Frans Lanting on assignment for National Geographic in 2012.

An Asiatic cheetah crosses the Miandasht Wildlife Reserve in Iran.

Shown cresting a barren, mountainous ridge devoid of green, Iran’s cheetahs could not be any more distant–geographically and ecologically–from their African counterparts pictured in the same article navigating tourist traffic-jams on Kenyan grasslands. (Jan. 2015) (Persian: مشاهده یک یوز پلنگ ماده آسیایی در پناهگاه حیات وحش میاندشت در خراسان شمالی ) Credit: Mehr News Agecy See more

See more ideas about Asiatic cheetah, Cheetah, Cheetahs. Today there are just 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild, according to the new study, which appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Asiatic Cheetah (aka Iranian Cheetah) has a smaller head than their African cousins. Fastest mammal on land, the cheetah can reach speeds of 60 or perhaps even 70 miles (97 or 113 kilometers) an hour over short distances. The Asiatic cheetah is known to survive in Iran, but is critically endangered. In fact, the Iranian national parks are the only places where the Asiatic Cheetah could be found. They are the Southeast African Cheetah (A. j. jubatus), Asiatic Cheetah (A. j. venaticus), Northeast African Cheetah (A. j. soemmeringii) and the Northwest African Cheetah (A. j. hecki).
“…because as a UN agency it was able to get money into Iran relatively easily.“Its aid was crucial,” said Williams (conservation biologist Sam Williams of the University of Venda, in South Africa)“ The Asiatic cheetah is known to survive in Iran, but is critically endangered.