Cheetahs are an animal that don't do well in protected game reserves.
Cheetahs have what's called mate choice.
Cheetahs are the only big cat that has nonretractable.
Cheetahs are the only big cat that does purr.
Cheetahs have a lifespan in captivity of about 12 to 14.
Cheetahs are very much more social than what we would think.
And cheetahs are very docile.
And cheetahs play a very key role in this in the grassland ecosystems.
Male cheetahs form what are called coalitions.
Putting cheetahs into the wild is, for us, the most important thing.
And cheetahs don't breed very well in captivity.
The cheetahs ' got polka dots.
Male cheetahs live, as I said, in coalitions.
And for cheetahs , it's all about living in harmony with them in Africa.
For a cheetah-- cheetahs cover areas of about 800 square miles.
We know where the cheetahs are.
But getting cheetahs in the wild and keeping them there is all about all these components that I talked about.
where they bring their cheetahs to schools.
And that's why cheetahs are still one of the few animals that can be used in educational purposes by legitimate facilities.
And in the case of cheetahs , 18 months.
And we always talk about cheetahs as being a very important part of ecosystems.
With only about 10,000 cheetahs remaining in the world, what's happened to them?
We've lost 90% of our cheetahs in the last 100 years.
The last of the Asian cheetahs is found in Iran where there are only about 60 cheetahs .
And we find about 12 cheetahs that live in those areas.
We see about four to five cheetahs per 1,000 square kilometers.
We also not only have cheetahs in this area, we also have wild dogs, which are one of the most endangered.
And allow an area for animals like cheetahs and wild dogs.
And what we found is that cheetahs , actually, are scratching their eyes and going blind.
There's places like India that wants cheetahs again, Uzbekistan.
It's called "A Future for Cheetahs " because saving the cheetah really means changing the world.
I was wondering with the limited genetic cheetahs have, have you tried transferring cheetahs from one of the isolated islands of population
It goes directly to saving cheetahs in the wild.
What is their social interaction with other cheetahs and how do they translate that to human ?
I was there mostly for the cheetahs , actually, and I was impressed that they seemed kind of lazy.
I wound up spending 18 months working with Cheetahs , five different families.
And this slide's particularly important because with the cheetahs , there's a bottleneck in the genetics.
Leopards and jaguars, cheetahs , all have these nice long tails.
And so, cheetahs get pushed out, they're in conflict with humans and livestock.
And our vision is really to see a world in which cheetahs live in harmony and flourish in coexistence with people and the environment.
We also then look at how to stop farmers from catching cheetahs .
Well, cheetahs are a little bit different.
And we have put back into the wild over 600 cheetahs .
By just spreading the word and helping keep cheetahs living in the wild.
No, cheetahs in general, right?
It's a large format book, chronicling cheetahs in the wild and it features photography by Suzi Eszterhas.
So we have to figure out how to live and flourish with cheetahs .
The area on this map here that is darker brown is the area where cheetahs are found today.
We have about 3,000 to 4,000 of the remaining 10,000 cheetahs .
And it's allowed us to understand more about the distribution and the density of cheetahs .