The Last Cheetah
Yesterday, in the Athi Basin, we came across what I believe to be the last cheetah in Nairobi National Park: a large male.
He had killed a hen ostrich & on our approach, trotted off (an extremely wary cheetah, this: he would have to be , would he not, to be the last survivor?
Paradoxically there are many (8?) cheetahs in the ‘Orphanage’ at Main Gate & across the main highway to Tanzania (which is the southern, uncrossable, boundary of the park’s dispersal area) there seems to be a fair population of wild cheetahs, but this is the last one in NNP: no cubs have been seen for several years now, though we hope that by some miracle a female may appear from somewhere……
Look at the belly:stuffed with ostrich meat!
The kill: a cheetah pulling down & killing an ostrich is something I have never heard of!
But then this is no ordinary cheetah: here’s a shot from several years ago of the same cheetah on a fully grown kongoni he killed: this individual is a formidable hunter……
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