Sunday, October 25, 2015

Illustrations of the Asiatic cheetah





An Asiatic cheetah in Miandasht wildlife refuge in Iran.













An Asiatic cheetah with 2 imperial attendants, during the region of Shah Alam 2 in 1764.













An Asian cheetah in captivity.


Illustration of tame Asiatic cheetahs from the anthologies of Svyatoslav in 1073.









3 last Indian cheetahs killed in 1948.






Mughal emperor of India hunting with locally traped Asiatic cheetahs in 1602, trapping adult Indian cheetahs, who have already learned the skills to hunt.
















Hunting of blackbuck with an Asiatic cheetah drawn by James Forbes in South Gujarat, India. Oriental memoirs, 1812.










Asian cheetah hunting a desert hare.












Nawabs with their Asiatic cheetahs.















Asiatic cheetah cubs in India in 1897.













Cheetah in Semnan Province, Iran.








Coat of arms.













Meraj Airlines Airbus A300-600 New livery of the Asian cheetah in 2016.

1 comment:

  1. Love this post! It has to be one of my favorites! I love all the historical photos!

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