One of the true highlights of our trip to Kenya was hearing rumor of a cheetah and then starting on an hour-long quest to find her. Julius, our guide, had eyes like a hawk and found this mother and her two babies sitting under a small tree. She was understandably skittish by our presence which is why we had to stalk her from a distance with our van. The babies were quite young as their spots were only on their legs. Cheetah litters normally have 4-6 babies and the somewhat laid-back approach she took to mothering (as evidenced by the increasing distances she would allow between herself and her babies who tried to keep up) suggested to Julius that she had lost her others to lions or baboons. It was certainly one of the most exciting things we had ever seen!
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