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Meal for a cheetah

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:41:15 +0000

Un repas pour le guépard

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), guépard.
Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, March 2013.

Tongues of a cheetah

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:31:54 +0000

Cheetah – Tanzania

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), guépard.
Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, March 2013.

Cheetahs

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:20:06 +0000

Guépards – Cheetahs (Tanzanie)

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, guépard)
Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

Cheetahs

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:20:37 +0000

Guépards – Cheetahs (Tanzanie)

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), guépard.
Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, March 2013.

Baby cheetah

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:08:06 +0000

Botswana, October 2011.

Nota bene: If you want to see (and hear) a babay cheetah mewing, I suggest that you go and visit YLoveBigCats.

Big cats images on my new web site

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:59:08 +0000

If you are interested, you can find some of my images about big cats (lions, leopards, cheetahs) on my new web site YLoveBigCats.com. As you certainly have noticed, some of these images come from my recent trip to Kenya (Masai Mara).

Back from Masai Mara

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:11:30 +0000

After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.

Kenya in photo safari

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:20:26 +0000

You will probably notice a little slow down in publication of posts here in the coming days: I am travelling for a few days to Kenya in order to shoot photos in the Masai Mara National Park during the great migration of herbivores (wildebeests and zebras, mostly).

I will be there with Alain Pons, wildlife photographer, and supported by Amawanda travel agent.

Images later here.

Cheetah mother with 6 cubs

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:16:58 +0000

Did you ever see cheetah cubs? Here are six of them in one single video.

video link

Cheetahs and elephants roaming free in USA

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:23:52 +0000

Yesterday, we were speaking here about prehistoric big cats in places where they disappeared (e.g. Europe). Today, I want to point at a surprising proposal made by Josh Donlan.

Recognizing that many big cats were roaming in North America tens of thousands of years ago, he want to re-introduce lions, cheetahs, elephants and other large animals in North America. He admits that this could be a bit difficult and that there is no way to rebuild the original population. But he offers ideas about how to bring camels and lions (from the closest relatives species) to a country were they were last seen hundreds of centuries ago.

Of course, it sounds a lot like Jurassic Park for real. Are you ready to find in the United States cheetahs hunting pronghorn bucks in the Wild West (wild again) or in Montana?

Cheetahs, pumas and jaguars of Europe

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:07:06 +0000

Found on Tretrapod Zoology, a series of articles about prehistoric felines among which one can find big cats like lions, pumas, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs or leopards on continents where they totally disappeared later.

Kenya safari video

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:02 +0000

Source: http://www.coreybehnke.com/.

Exercise a cheetah

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:53:14 +0000

A zoo cheetah cannot be released in the wild if it is not able to hunt. And this is the fastest running hunter – if trained. So, how do you exercise a cheetah in order to prepare it for possible wild life?

Video link

Masai Mara Safari Camp

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:42:27 +0000

That bloke in that car where the cheetah pooped through the roof hatch

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:08:27 +0000

This is exactly how Jonathan Scott will now be known thanks to a bad accident involving one SUV car, one open roof and one cheetah.

Link to YouTube

I am happy that my own experience in Kenya -while being a similar- did involve more photo shooting… and only that.

South Africa: One hour with the Cheetahs

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:00:52 +0000

Shooting a few good images is quite often a matter of time. The following sequence extends over slightly more than an hour (and sometimes, fed with waiting the photographer looks for a different subject like in the last photo of the series) and we only stopped because night was about to come:

Cheetah

Cheetah

Cheetah,
marking its territory

Sitting Cheetah

Sitting Cheetahs

Lying cheetah

Yawning cheetah

Yawning cheetah

Two cheetahs, a portrait
[my prefered]

Cheetah on video
By a photographer tired of looking at
the same suject from
the same point of view…
(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

Shocking news: Cheetah attacks BBC reporter

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:05:15 +0000

Simon King, BBC presenter of Big Cat Diary, was recently attacked by a cheetah. It is a very unusual behaviour for an animal who tends to be easily afraid by large animals like a human.

Read it all on BBC (video here).

I am not unhappy that it did not happen to me last time I met a female cheetah:

Photo Marc Wunderlich

Added comment: Now, people start saying that the cheetah must have been rabid. While I understand that it is always a good health security measure to protect the bitten human with shots -just to avoid taking any risks.- why don’t they start assuming that running around a wild carnivorous animal is a weird way to avoid accidents?

Eye of the cat

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:24:18 +0000

As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.

Masai Mara – high point (female cheetah)

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:17:45 +0000

During my recent photo safari to the Masai Mara park, there is a time to be singled out. It allowed me to take the following photo.

As a matter of fact, this magnificent female cheetah is less that two meters from me…

It is sitting on the roof of the car we used.

Photo Marc WunderlichI’m on the left, along with Alain Saunier our photo guide from Objectif Nature. On the preceeding photos, much less sure of what to do, you would only see the top of my head. Ken, our driver was shocked; It was the first time he had this experience and was totally unable to know exactly where the animal was sitting.

After a few seconds of intense emotion, I managed to get my eyes and my camera out of the open roof and to shoot backlit portraits (I would not even think to talk her into moving).

It appears that this young female in pregnant and was not named yet. We decided that she should be named Kennie (after Ken, our driver). We’ll see if the name is kept by the local photographers, guides and rangers.

No other snapshot brought my heart to such speeds.

At some point, the tail of the cheetah was lowered inside the car through the open roof. despite multiple friendly suggestions, neither Miguel nor Daniel tried to check if it was for real.