The Force of a Family

A visual account of the lives, of this indestructible force of cheetah. After two years of nursing, feeding, teaching and protecting the incredible mother to these four, now sub-adult, cheetah is finally ready to leave her brood.

The sub-adults which include, 3 males and one female, have developed into successful hunters and are now ready to fend for themselves. Its more than likely that when the break off from their mother does eventually happen, that the 3 males will form a strong coalition and the young female will venture off on her own. It will be interesting to see where the 3 males establish their territory as they will be fighting the likes of our existing 3 brothers for the area they have now become familiar with. As for the young female and mom, they will now be competing for mates, as reproduction becomes the most important key to survival.

Thank you to Janet Wilkinson, Janet Dewar and Deborah Jordan for sharing some of your memories with this incredible force of 5, who have provided our guests to Mashatu with endless top class sightings and many lessons to the ways of the wild!