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05 Oct 2015

High Speed Chase

In today’s journal, I would like to write about this wonderful family of four. The Matriach cheetah named Malaika – swahili for Angel. Daughter of another famous Cheetah Queen. Malaika is about eight years old and lives in the Maasai Mara with her three cubs (they were four but one left) She has raised many cubs to adulthood successfully and is an excellent hunter. Cheetahs generally are successful hunters. With accelerations of 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds half of […]

30 Sep 2015
Silhouette of tourists taking a selfie with cheetah on top of a safari jeep at sunset as captured by wildlife photographer clement kiragu

Golden Selfie with a top predator

Am seated in my car, its about 6:20pm, my camera pointed at the sunset, a bit to my left is a family of cheetahs, one of the most famous cheetah families, in the Maasai Mara, I am praying that they’ll give me a great series of silhouette photos. I took my eyes off the scene for a few seconds to confirm i had the right settings, I look up from my camera and see the cheetahs climbing one of the […]