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Published: 2013-10-15 21:46:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 722; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 0
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Less can be more, in cheetahs as in many things. This one is an old friend.Related content
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What a beautiful creature and a beautiful shot at that. I love the composition, Rene. Felines are such curious animals, and by the look on her face, it seems she is so.
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Thanks, Erin. The KC zoo has an excellent cheetah compound, so I have some free models on hand, which is lucky for me, because I love to photograph them. I look at the exposures as art, whether color pr black and white. The animals are more than a little wonderful in many ways, and expressive of something exceedingly wild. The fact that they are endangered makes my trouble legitimate, I think, as if I needed a reason.
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Hah! This is so awesome. How did she get up there? I bet those branches offer a lovely view of the enclosure below.
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The branch is actually lying on the ground, Chris. But the enclosure in the Kansas City zoo is very large, with hills. Her sister has recently been sent to St. Louis for breeding, so now there are two remaining.
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Oh. Oh! It looked like...oh well. So that whole leafy arboreal-looking thing is on the ground! Fascinating. But I still want to see a cheetah in a tree. They look lovely up there!
That's a great thing. The more space the animals have to roam, the better. Keeps the boredom away while giving a resemblance to what a natural habitat would look like. Clever plan. Too bad we still use concrete and steel here in Romania. You can imagine how crappy the enclosures look...
Aww. Well, that's a good thing. The more cheetahs, the better. So who are the two remaining ones? The one in the photo and her other sister?
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That's right. Hopefully the other will have cubs and not be lonely without her two sisters.
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That would be lovely. Kind of sucks that males don't get involved in raising the young. It makes little sense for cheetahs, as they are by far the most vulnerable big cats.
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They are the most ancient of the big cats, so that must have come later in the scheme of things. I hope they survive in the wild.
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Wow, really? I thought sabertooth cats or whatever they're called were the ancestors of the big cat family. Cheetahs are...odd. I mean, they're really lanky, have no retractable claws, and their anatomy is just different than that of the other big cats. That's why they got put in another family ( or genus. I've no idea how that goes. 8th class biology, heh )
I hope that too. They're having such a rough time though, and their genetic similarity doesn't help that much. You definitely heard about that bottleneck and stuff, and why all the cheetahs today are like 98% related to each other in terms of genes.
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I should have said, "the most ancient of the living cats". I do suspect that they'll end up extinct because of the small gene pool.
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