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Cheetah
Cheetah
(Acinonyx jubatus)
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Five day old cheetah cubs
© Rob Nunnington / www.osfimages.com
Cheetah cub
© David Lawson / WWF-UK
Cheetah cub with bloodied snout
© Pete Oxford / naturepl.com
Cheetah cub
© David Cayless / www.osfimages.com
Cheetah cubs
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Female cheetah with suckling cubs
© Ferrero-Labat / www.ardea.com
Cheetah with 4-6 week old cubs
© Steve Turner / www.osfimages.com
Juvenile cheetah
© Eliot Lyons / naturepl.com
Cheetah cubs playing
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Female cheetah and cub playing
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Immature cheetahs standing alert
© Tony Heald / naturepl.com
Cheetah lying on ground
© Imogene Powers Johnson, used with permission
Close up of two cheetahs
© Thomas D. Mangelsen / Images of Nature
Two cheetahs nuzzling
© Julian Cox / Framed by the Light Limited
Cheetah on dead tree
© David W. Breed / www.osfimages.com
Male cheetah
© Michael Hutchinson / mikehutchinson.com
Cheetah
© Clam Haagner / www.ardea.com
King cheetah
© Pete Oxford / naturepl.com
Cheetah using mound as observation post
© Peter Blackwell / naturepl.com
Cheetah sitting
© Thomas D. Mangelsen / Images of Nature
Cheetah sitting on termite mound
© Richard Packwood / www.osfimages.com
Cheetah using tree as observation post
© Peter Blackwell / naturepl.com
Cheetah camouflaged in habitat
© Ron O'Connor / naturepl.com
Cheetah stalking
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Cheetah sprinting
© Peter Blackwell / naturepl.com
Cheetah sprinting
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Cheetah sprinting
© Steve Turner / www.osfimages.com
Female cheetah hunting
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Cheetah female killing Thomson's gazelle
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Female cheetah feeding at kill
© Steve Turner / www.osfimages.com
Cheetah with cubs feeding at kill
© Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com
Male cheetah grooming
© Michael Hutchinson / mikehutchinson.com
Male cheetah scent marking tree
© Anup Shah / naturepl.com
Three male cheetahs resting in shade
© Michael Hutchinson / mikehutchinson.com
Serengeti landscape with kopje, typical habitat of cheetah
© Nigel Tucker
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