cheetah history – Michael Broad

Acinonyx meaning

January 16, 2019 by Michael Broad

Cheetah - a better hunter than most wild cat species

The cheetah is alone in the genus Acinonyx. A ‘genus’ is a rank in the classification of the species (taxonomy). It is a sort of group of cats with the same fundamental features and in this case it is a group of one, the cheetah because the cats has ‘anatomical peculiarities’. This is how …

When was the cheetah first discovered?

February 6, 2017 by Michael Broad

No one knows when cheetahs were first discovered because there is no record of that unique moment in the history of this much admired wild cat species. This is because it happened so long ago. Cheetahs have been on the planet for far longer than “anatomically modern Homo sapiens1” (modern humans). It is said …