Mother Cheetah in the Serengeti

This mother cheetah is doing a great job raising her three cubs in the Serengeti. I was fortunate enough to be there last month and we found these four on an early morning game drive. We returned to the same area later in the day to see whether she had been successful in hunting down some food for the family.

Cheetah are becoming comparatively rare now. When I lived in Kenya about 40 years ago, you could be reasonably confident of seeing them on any trip to the game reserve, and often in any open country. That has clearly changed and we saw more leopard on this trip than we saw cheetah, which really blew me away!

I have plenty more photos of this little family to share!

Cheetah watch approaching storm in the Serengeti

An afternoon storm approaches as these cheetah relax after feeding on a Thompson's gazelle. Mum is a fairly small cheetah doing a great job of feeding and raising three cubs on her own in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Whitefella Walkabout
Tanzania, East Africa

Pretty Cheetah Family in the Serengeti.

A beautiful mother cheetah and three cubs in the northern Serengeti. We returned later that day to see what they were up to and found them about two kilometres away feeding on a Thompson's Gazelle … their favourite. I will post some of these photos soon! The mother is not very large and she is doing a fabulous job feeding and tending to three cubs!