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Another cheetah
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Cheetah watch
More possible cheetah action - this time from Jabbaren up on the Tassili plateau southeast of Djanet last Friday.
These caught our guide's eye over the more common but smaller jackal tracks - he reckoned they were 'today'.
Other less common animals actually spotted on the plateau included 'marmots' (never seen them in Alg only Mori), plus a hare or two.
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Chris,
Can you email me a better resolution photo. I know of someone who can positively identify the tracks, and will be delighted if indeed they turn out to be cheetah.
Edit: the large tracks on the right are indeed cheetah
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Fancy that - thanks for finding out. Would be great to see it one day.
The morning before at Alandimen (or something like) guelta a few km north the hobbled donkeys took a lot of tracking down. Maybe the cheetah spooked them, although we did hear what sounded like a jackal that night.
I'm told the 'marmots' we saw are actually called rock hyrax.
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I have seen hyrax on most of the ascents we have made in the Tafilalet. Usually they scurry away when they hear visitors coming, but this pair we saw in 2011 obediently posed for the cameras.
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How fascinating! These rock hyrax are the closest living genetic relatives to elephants and also find them on Table Mountain, Cape Town (ZA) and surrounds.
But I don't think anyone has seen cheetah on Table Mountain recently... You still do get some in the mountains an hour or two east and not far inland.
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Cheetah between Djanet and Erg Tihodaine
two years ago we made camp in a beautyful place between Djanet and Erg Tihodaine.
Later I saw this footprints crossing the camp
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How fascinating! These rock hyrax are the closest living genetic relatives to elephants
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Interesting! Truly a case of "little and large".
Great photos ladies and gentlemen.
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It's good new that they are still about, the Saharan Cheetah that is, but I do wonder if they truly are a sub-species or ones from the south moving North due to the pressures of man and the lack of range available to them..Life has a habit of finding a way if it possibly can..despite what humans arrogantly think..I am pleased to say.
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