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National Geographic Photo of the Day

October 28, 2012 at 09:30AM

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features


A male cheetah assumes a lookout pose in a fig tree in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve. His prospects are sobering. Shy and aloof by nature, requiring vast spaces to live and hunt, the planet's fastest sprinters are in a race for their very survival.


See more pictures from the November 2012 feature story "Cheetahs on the Edge."




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