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Rare Endangered Cheetahs Photographed
cbsnews ^
| February 24, 2009
| Tucker Reals
Posted on 02/24/2009 6:59:21 AM PST by JoeProBono
Researchers have captured the first images of critically-endangered cheetahs in northwest Africa using a camera-trap system set up to spy on the big cats. Touting the success in a news release Tuesday, the Zoological Society of London, said the incredibly rare — and notoriously hard to find — Saharan cheetah population may consist of only about 250 adult animals.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; cats; cheetah
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02/24/2009 7:52:17 AM PST
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Cuteness overload!
Thanks for posting the pictures. Cheetah’s are amazing animals!
If I remember correctly, at one time cheetah’s were kept as pets by pharoahs in ancient Egypt.
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02/24/2009 8:03:49 AM PST
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They are indeed. Cheetahs are my favorite animal, period. I have one tattooed on my ankle (a deco graphic of a cheetah).
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To: JoeProBono
Look at this beauty. A King Cheetah:
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02/24/2009 8:09:17 AM PST
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Grip is too large for my hand. ;)
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02/24/2009 8:09:29 AM PST
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rintense
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02/24/2009 8:13:37 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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Wow, I hate those guys.
I understand killing something to eat it, but to kill something just for the fun of it? How does it make a man "tough" just to shoot something?
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teenyelliott
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