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A female Cheetah on an Impala kill – Maasai Mara, Kenya 2025

A female Cheetah on an Impala kill – Maasai Mara, Kenya 2025

A female Cheetah on an Impala kill. We had spent quite some time watching this six year old female Cheetah (Kulete) earlier in the day as she tried to hunt but on each occasion she was easily spotted. We decided to leave her and return later to establish if she had...

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A male Cheetah marks his territory – Maasai Mara, Kenya 2024

A male Cheetah marks his territory – Maasai Mara, Kenya 2024

A male Cheetah marks his territory.  In the open plains of Kenya’s Maasai Mara we found this handsome male Cheetah (called Milele). He had been trying to hunt Topi but had been seen from a great distance so he gave up and concentrated on scent making an isolated...

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A cheetah family on a chilly morning – Maasai Mara 2024

A cheetah family on a chilly morning – Maasai Mara 2024

A cheetah family on a chilly morning. It was a chilly morning when we found this cheetah family in Kenya’s Maasai Mara close to Kicheche Bush Camp in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy. The four, four month old cubs huddled together with their mother to warm up and do...

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Cheetah and her four, four month old cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah and her four, four month old cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah and her four, four month old cubs. We had seen this cheetah and her four cubs in the Naboisho Conservancy whilst at Kicheche Valley Camp but they had left the area and gone to the Maasai Mara National Reserve and we thought we had seen the last of them. So it...

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Cheetah takes a Grant’s Gazelle – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah takes a Grant’s Gazelle – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah takes a Grant's Gazelle. We spent several days following this cheetah and her four six month old cubs in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. The mother was an accomplished hunter and had done well to raise four cubs. In the pouring rain she had been...

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Cheetah climbs a tree to look for prey – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah climbs a tree to look for prey – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah climbs a tree to look for prey. This cheetah had four six month old cubs in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. The previous day she had taken down an impala and the family had had a big feast. But keeping four six month old cubs fit and healthy...

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Playful young cheetah cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Playful young cheetah cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Playful young cheetah cubs. This was great fun to watch. We had been following this cheetah family for several hours in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Whilst these four, six month old cheetah cubs had had nothing to eat for a few days they still had...

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Cheetahs before the storm – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetahs before the storm – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetahs before the storm. A remarkable feature of our one month visit to the Maasai Mara, Kenya in January and February 2024 was the astonishing amount of rain we had given this is meant to be the hot and dry season. At times we got very wet indeed. This particular...

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Cheetah family play in a tree – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family play in a tree – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family play in a tree. We got to know this cheetah and her six month old cubs well as we followed them around for several days in the Naboisho Conservancy close to Kicheche Valley Camp, Maasai Mara, Kenya. This afternoon we found them playing on and around a...

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Cheetah family on an Impala kill – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family on an Impala kill – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family on an Impala kill. We had just seen this cheetah take down an impala in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. After recovering from the chase she left the carcass and went to find her four, six month old cubs. We had been following this family...

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Cheetah takes down an Impala – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah takes down an Impala – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah takes down an Impala.  This cheetah had four six month old cubs in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. We had been with them for a few days as she searched for possible foods o we knew she had not hunted successfully and that she and her cubs were...

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Very playful Cheetah cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Very playful Cheetah cubs – Maasai Mara 2024

Very playful Cheetah cubs. We had been following this cheetah family for several hours in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Whilst these four, six month old cheetah cubs had had nothing to eat for a few days they still had energy to play for seemingly...

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Cheetah cubs love to play – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah cubs love to play – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah cubs love to play. After a very chilly early morning in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya it had warmed up nicely by mid morning. Early on this cheetah family had been huddling together to keep warm. Now they were warmer, the six month old cubs...

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Cheetah family huddle together – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family huddle together – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah family huddle together.  It was a very chilly and rather damp morning in the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya when we found this cheetah family huddling together to keep warm and dry. The mother had successfully raised four cubs to the good age of six...

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Cheetah and her cubs search for prey – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah and her cubs search for prey – Maasai Mara 2024

Cheetah and her cubs search for prey. In the Naboisho Conservancy, Maasai Mara, Kenya this cheetah and her four six month old cubs had not eaten for a few days. We tracked them as they searched for suitable prey. Not long after this sequence was shot, the mother set...

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