On the 8/1/08 along the Kenya /Tanzania border, i found a female cheetah with little cubs sleeping under the shade of a croton bush. This female with her cubs was seen on the 19/12/07 and since then she has not been seen again. I drove to about 50m away, stopped and switched off the engine. The cubs were a little scared but the mother wasn't shy, although she kept her stare on me.



They are about 2 months old and looked very beautiful. Their silky-fur black with faint black spot and a cape of long, blue-grey hair over their bodies make them lovely. I watched for quite a long hour since there were no tourists around. The mother went closer to the cubs to lie down. The cubs came one by one and suckle ungrudgingly.

I have been monitoring these cheetahs since then and on 17/01/08 in the morning around 8.17 a.m, i found her feeding with her cubs. She had killed a Thomson gazelle and had eaten much of it. A family of black-back jackals were surrounding hoping to get something, which eventually they got because the cheetah seeing all these jackals went off with her cubs. Today i found her with cubs playing and climbing a dead tree. Very interesting little cubs.