Acinonyx jubatus - #1041
Cheetah
Close-up side view of cheetah lying down
Geographic Distribution
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Afghanistan, Burundi, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, Yemen.
Order/Family
Felidae
Genus
Acinonyx
Specific Epithet
jubatus
Photographer
J Visser