What are the types of cheetahs?

There are five living subspecies of cheetah, but the differences among them are very small. They are: Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, the type subspecies, from southern Africa A. J.

Hecki, the West African cheetah A. J. Raineyii, from East Africa A.J.Soemmeringii, from Central Asia (probably extinct) A.J. Venaticus, from southwest Asia and India (today, only a remnant population lives in Iran) There is a form called the "king cheetah," which is a genetic mutant form that has a different arrangement of spots.

They have larger spots, stripes, and spots that merge into swirls and stripes. The king cheetah is not a separate species or subspecies, but just an odd color form that shows up from time to time in the cheetahs of southern Africa.

Red (erythristic) cheetahs have dark tawny spots on a golden background. Cream (isabelline) cheetahs have pale red spots on a pale background. Some desert region cheetahs are unusually pale; probably they are better-camouflaged and therefore better hunters and more likely to breed and pass on their paler colouration.

Blue (Maltese or grey) cheetahs have variously been described as white cheetahs with grey-blue spots (chinchilla) or pale grey cheetahs with darker grey spots (Maltese mutation). A ticked was shot in Tanzania in 1921 (Pocock); it had only a few spots on the neck and back, and these were unusually small. Another ticked cheetah color-morph was photographed in Kenya in 2012.

Cheetahs inhabit dry and open areas, such as clayey deserts, steppes, savannahs and grasslands, acacia scrubs and light woodland. Most cheetahs never enter dense forests or thickets except Asiatic cheetahs that lived in dense forested regions in India. In Africa, cheetahs once occurred in these types of habitat from the Mediterranean to the Cape Peninsula, and in Asia from the northern Arabian Peninsula eastwards to the Deccan Plateau and West Bengal in India.

Until the first half of the 20th century, cheetahs were killed by sport hunters and became scarce throughout their range. In South Africa they were hunted to almost extermination by the 1930s. In Arabia, there have not been any reliable records since the 1950s.

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