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Acinonyx jubatus

Cheetah

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) with cubs in Serengei NPCheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) eating a Thomson's gazelle in Serengeti NP. Tanzania
Containing group: Felidae

Other Names for Acinonyx jubatus

References

Christiansen, P. and J. H. Mazák. 2009. A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106(2):512-515.

Marker, L. L., A. J. P. Wilkerson, R. J. Sarno, J. Martenson, C. Breitenmoser-Wursten, S. J. O'Brien, and W. E. Johnson. 2008. Molecular genetic insights on cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) ecology and conservation in Namibia. Journal of Heredity 99:2-13.

May R. 1995. The cheetah controversy. Nature 374:309–10.

Menotti-Raymond M, O'Brien SJ. 1993. Dating the genetic bottleneck of the African cheetah. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:3172–76.

Merola M. 1994. A reassessment of homozygosity and the case for inbreeding depression in the cheetah Acinonyx jubatus: implications for conservation. Conserv. Biol. 8:961–71.

O'Brien SJ. 1998. Intersection of population genetics and species conservation: The cheetah's dilemma. In Evolutionary Biology, Volume 30, ed. MK Hecht, RJ MacIntrye, MT Clegg. New York: Plenum Press.

O'Brien SJ. 2003. Tears of the Cheetah and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier. New York: St. Martin's Press.

O'Brien, S., J., M. Roelke, L .Marker, A. Newman, C. Winkler, D. Meltzer, L. Colly, J. Evermann, M. Bush, and D. E. Wildt. 1985. Genetic basis for species vulnerability in the cheetah. Science 227:1428-1434.

O'Brien, S., J., D. E. Wildt, D. Goldman, C. R. Merril, and M. Bush. 1983. The cheetah us depauperate in genetic variation. Science 221:459-462.

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) with cubs in Serengei NP
Scientific Name Acinonyx jubatus
Location Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Comments Cheetah with two cubs sitting on a termite hill, scanning the grassland for prey.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By David Bygott
Behavior Resting, searching for prey
Sex Female
Life Cycle Stage Adult female with cubs of about 6 months
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) eating a Thomson's gazelle in Serengeti NP. Tanzania
Scientific Name Acinonyx jubatus
Location Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Comments This cheetah had just killed an adult Thomson's gazelle, and after eating part of the haunch she dragged the carcass into the taller grass where she would be less easily seen by competitors such as hyaenas.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By David Bygott
Behavior Predation
Sex Female
Life Cycle Stage Adult
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