A Lucky Day With The Cheetahs.

 Up on a termite mound,which one to go for among those zebras?

 Spray-Marking a Boscia tree,we are around here!

 After the chase and missing to catch one,back on another termite mound,what next men?

 Malaika,too hot for her could not get enough cover,but her cub had enough!

Malaika's cub,Please mum find a shade for us,it is too hot,or can we go for it in Alfred's Car?,Yes let us go there.......

Cheetahs(Acinonyx jubatus)Two brothers and Malaika with her cub-Mara Rhino Ridge and Mara Double Crossings.

       Today,On the 1st of August we left the camp very early in the morning looking for malaika and her cub,the cheetah that she has been hanging around double crossings in the mara but on our way down there we found two other different cheetahs,two brothers chasing zebras up and down,trying to bring one down for breakfast,I did not expect to find them,for we had not seen them near rhino ridge for long time though cheetahs can easily cover long distances in few hours,it was great watching them going after the zebras though they did not succeded to get one.These two lost their brother early October last year,after they were ambushed by lions.Male cheetahs who are brothers or non-brothers can form coalitions and and when it come to hunting they bring down bigger prey that the solitary cheetahs can not do,during the last migration i saw these brothers,though when they were three bringing down a bigger wildebeeste that a single cheetah can not,also they can easily.Looking forward to watching these two going for the wildebeeste or Zebras.

At mid-day on our way back to the camp we spotted malaika with her cub in tall grass,it was too hot,and i decided that we were going to wait for until they move to where she had her kill(a gazelle),For mama the grass could not cover her,she was pantin alot,the cub had a small shade.She later decided to go and find a shade somewhere,not showing us her kill,all cats during the heat of the spend their time under the shades,but for malaika she may have not had enough of her meal.As we were taking some shots of her the cub came under our car for the shade,and mum had no option but to jump on to the roof of our car,this was exceptional,may be she wanted to check on who could be around for the security of her cub and their kill.My clients could take photos of them,a cub under us and mum on the roof,Iam very sure that the tiny one got relieved of the heat and after approximaely 10 minutes she jumped off the car followed by her toto,and they went looking for shade..........,we head back to the camp for late lunch.