I was reading through Volume 13 of the International Zoo Yearbooks and I found out that they had Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) at Chapultepec Zoo and at Phoenix Zoo, it said that Chapultepec Zoo had 0.1 and that Phoenix Zoo also had 0.1, I am very shocked to find this out, does anyone else on here know more about this ?
In all the years i have been to Chapultepec zoo, they have never had any cheetahs on exhibit. They did have some subspecies of asian leopard, persian or chinese, many years ago. An error in translation somewhere, i suppose.
Has anybody else noticed that in photos of Asiatic Cheetah, there seems to be a white eye ring? And thank you again, fofo. What do these animals prey upon mostly? Do they come into conflict with people by killing domestic animals?
Based on the title of the thread and the picture of a lone Cheetah, plus the lack of any narrative from the poster, I was assuming that this was the last Asiatic Cheetah in Iran. Apparently not? So what are the wild / captive populations in Iran.
English is not fofo's first language, so the title of the thread was not meant to imply this was the only individual in Iran. The Asiatic cheetah is now entirely restricted in the wild to Iran where the population is unknown. There are probably somewhere between 50 and 100 animals according to what I have read, but every article will say something different because basically nobody knows. The number will likely be at the lower end of that scale. I don't know how many there are captive myself but others surely will.
