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King Cheetah: The Story of the Quest

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King Cheetah:The Story of the Quest, published by eminent scientific house Brill of Leiden - and the definitive treatise in book form on King Cheetah to date - doesn't remotely purport (as erroneously claimed by an earlier "reviewer") at any point within its pages that King Cheetah, the most exiting development in modern mammology, is a hybrid (a wacky notion floated in the King Cheetah's initial days of discovery when few could explain the occurrence, and why, of this striped and blotched phenomenon.
Rather, in a fine assessment of the KC fieldwork and background - I write as an experienced field reseracher on big cats - the book and author patently support the position that King Cheetah, based on sound evidence, is a new geographic race of cheetah - not a species, not a throwback, and most assuredly not the result of hybridization in the wild state at a far distant point in time - in the process of evolving. In short, evolution as we watch. Clear and straightforward.

Great book on Cheetah hybrids and developing science that helped identify the King as a hybrid, capable of reproducing hybrid animal. Which is rather unusual to being with. Better story teller than Joy Adams of Born Free fame. The Author also captures the political environs of an ever changing Africa.