Hear ‘cheetah’ and picture paws pummelling upon the grasslands of Africa. But this cat is not as inherently African as many imagine. One subspecies exists in central Iran, the relic of a population which once spanned from Egypt to India. For over a decade, experts have explored bringing the cheetah back to India. But as the native Asiatic cheetah teeters over the precipice to extinction, animals would have to be sourced from Africa. Does the return of cheetahs to India threaten the subspecies that's actually native there?
Category: introduced species
Double-Edged Sward: The Tulip Tree Forests of Puerto Rico
We may awe at the elephant, fear the leopard, be transfixed by the butterfly and celebrate the kingfisher, but none of these species define their habitats as strongly as the trees they live amongst. Wherever present, the density, height, soil impact and species composition of a tree community allow the denizens of that habitat to …
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