Animal 101: Cheetahs

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Not so long ago, wild cheetahs were found across much of Africa and Asia, through the Arabian Peninsula to the Caspian Region and into India and Pakistan. In the early 1900s, there were 100,000 cheetahs in the wild. Today, fewer than 7,500 remain - and these cats face multiple complex threats. In Asia, the cats disappeared from the wild almost entirely during the first half of the twentieth century. Asiatic cheetahs now persist only in Iran - and there are believed to be less than 40 individuals