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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Asiatic Cheetah- less than a hundred are left

From Drop Box
there are less than a hundred Asiatic cheetahs in the world; they can only be found in the central desert of Iran, these are threatened by Coal, Copper, Opium and domestic herders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_Cheetah

From Drop Box

Picture was taken in 1925 of man from the Shammar Bedouin tribe in the southwest portion of iraq, with a Asiatic Cheetah and a cub (Fahd Sayyad or Fahd Alrabi) .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fahd.jpg

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