Sentences with phrase «species of cheetah»

It shows scientists caught mid decision: a new species of cheetah is agreed, then reclassified as a subspecies.

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Using computerized tomography scans, they created detailed 3D images of the inner ear from the skulls of cheetahs and other cat species, from leopards to domestic cats.

The organization found that eBay sites in six countries were selling endangered wildlife products, including elephant ivory and hides, turtle shells, and skins from leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, lizards and crocodiles; two thirds of all endangered species products listed on eBay had U.S. sellers.

«By using high - tech equipment to look deep inside the skulls of modern and fossil cat species, we have discovered that there was a decoupling of locomotor and sensory system adaptations to high - speed predation in the cheetah lineage,» Grohé said.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

Other species have only fared slightly better: the dama gazelle and addax are gone from 99 percent of their range; the leopard from 97 percent, and the Saharan cheetah from 90.

Instead of just saying, «Don't go and kill the cheetah,» I gave people years of knowledge and understanding about the species.

But some pairs of species appear to be «aggregated,» meaning they tend to appear together in nature more often than one would expect by chance — like cheetahs and giraffes who both depend on savannah habitats.

Fitzpatrick and colleague Jonathan Evans compared existing data on sperm fitness for 20 endangered and non-endangered species of mammals, including the Florida panther, Asiatic lion and cheetah.

The beauty of the animals in Africa is exquisite; numerous species of birds in every color of the rainbow, monkeys swinging from trees with their babies clinging to their backs, giraffes grazing in open fields, sprinting cheetahs, elephants playing in the water and so much more wildlife fill Africa.

Additionally, adolescent male brothers of some species, including cheetahs, lions and pumas often stick together after dispersing, cooperating to obtain food and hanging out together.

Today, thanks in part to early and current research, we are celebrating increases in birth announcements for captive cheetahs, clouded leopards and fishing cats, offering hope that the survival of many of the seriously threatened and endangered wild cat species is achievable.

You will see wild animals such as lions, tigers and cheetahs, all part of a world program to save endangered species.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

It is home to quality «big five» game viewing with prolific cheetahs, 15 species of antelope and over 400 bird species.

Finally, the wild and beautiful Mana Pools National Park, one of Zimbabwe's most popular parks, where large mammals, lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas, over 350 bird species and aquatic wildlife live.

Kragga Kamma Game Reserve is a mere 20 minutes drive where you can view many of Africa's animals including the White Rhino, Cheetah, Giraffe, Buffalo and many other species.

Cheetah, Hippo, Crocodile, spotted Hyena, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebra and numerous species of antelope are also resident in the reserve.

Game species commonly found in and around Marloth Park area include elephant, buffalo, lion, rhino, impala, kudu, waterbuck, giraffe, bushbuck, zebra, leopard, cheetah, hyena, jackal, hippo, infrequently cape hunting dogs and a variety of smaller antelope such as duiker and steenbok.

Day 5 Full - day safari in the Kruger, one of the world's largest and best managed game reserves with an abundance of species including elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard, zebra, cheetah and hippo.

Face it, the vast majority of us will not be fortunate enough to go on safari, so re-created African savannah, as exists at the Bronx Zoo, with several antelope species, grevy's zebra, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, hunting dogs, etc. is the next best thing.

Similarly a case could be made for any of the rescued species such as the North American Bisson, White & Black Rhinos to suffer extinction even if we try to keep them from harm, again to due to lack of genetic diversity, that is my speculation but for the cheetah it is a bit dire as they have very little diversity in their immune system, they are almost clones, and that is not good.

Without the safari hunting, conservancies would not survive against other land - use pressures, so safari hunting has a crucial indirect, positive impact on the conservation of rhinos and many other rare species such as cheetahs.»

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This is why the recent birth of 4 cheetah cubs at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa is so important; while Meg, the mother, isn't a King Cheetah, her partner was, so the cubs are bearers of the rarecheetah cubs at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa is so important; while Meg, the mother, isn't a King Cheetah, her partner was, so the cubs are bearers of the rareCheetah, her partner was, so the cubs are bearers of the rare genes.