Cheetah Survey, Botswana, 1999
A cheetah surveys the savanna from atop a termite mound in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
As recently as 1900, cheetahs thrived throughout Africa and Asia, as far east as Myanmar (Burma). But a host of perils, including predation by lions and the encroachment of farms on their territory, has hurt their numbers and their range. Today, only about 12,000 cheetahs remain in some 30 African countries.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Chris Johns
意译:主标题:俯瞰的印度豹,博茨瓦纳,(位于南非共和国内,1966年独立)1999年。
印度豹站在一个白蚁跺上俯瞰热带大草原,位于博茨瓦纳的(Okavango)三角州。
就在1900年,印度豹群茁壮成长遍及非洲和亚洲,直到亚洲远东的缅甸。但是一个主要的危险,包括被狮子猎杀和侵犯农场在它们的领地,今天在非洲只有约12000只印度豹残存在非洲30个国家里。
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