Southeast African cheetah

Southeast African cheetah
	A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Scientific classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix):	Acinonychini
Genus:	Acinonyx
Species:	A. jubatus
Subspecies:	A. j. jubatus
Trinomial name
	Acinonyx jubatus jubatus; (Schreber, 1775)
	A. j. jubatus range (blue)
Synonyms
	A. j. guttata (Hermann, 1804) ; A. j. fearsoni (Smith, 1834) ; A. j. fearonis (Fitzinger, 1869) ; A. j. lanea (Sclater, 1877) ; A. j. obergi (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. raineyi (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. velox (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. rex (Pocock, 1927)

The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate subspecies of cheetah native to Southern Africa. It is the most abundant subspecies estimated at more than 6,000 individuals in the wild. Since 1990 and onwards, the population was estimated at approximately 2,500 individuals in Namibia, until 2015, the cheetah population has been increased to more than 3,500 in the country.^[1]

The Southeast African Cheetah is the closest relative to the two other distinct subspecies, the Asiatic Cheetahs and the Northeast African Cheetah.^[2]^[3]

Southeast African Cheetah Media

An illustration of a cheetah cub (Acinonyx jubatus guttata) by Joseph Wolf in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867
A regular cheetah at Kruger National Park, South Africa
Teeth and tongue of cheetah
The Southeast African cheetah was one of the most widespread animals. These two cheetahs were photographed at southwestern South Africa between 1906 and 1918.
Three males at Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa
A stunning baby cheetah
A cheetah suffocating an impala in Timbavati, South Africa
Cheetahs of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Namibia
An orphan cheetah set to be reintroduced to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Two captive cheetahs in Nehru Zoological Park, India. The Asiatic cheetah, which used to inhabit India, is extinct there.