Category: Acinonyx
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Fossil big cats
The big cats that we know today are but an image of the species appeared then disappeared during the last 60 million years. Of course, I think of the famous saber-toothed tiger of our youngest years, but it is not alone. “The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives” of Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Anton,…
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Cheetah on the roof
The photo currently illustrating the top of this webs ite is worth describing. It comes from a special photo shoot event, in 2006, in Kenya. I was in the Masai Mara and while we were approaching a female chetah, she decided to use the height of our car to search around and lie down for…