Okavango Delta, Botswana
1998
Chris Johns

“In the 1980s researchers discovered that all cheetahs are genetically similar???so much so that skin grafts from one cheetah to another produce no immune reaction. ... No one really knows what this signifies for the future of the species.”

???Text from “Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands,” December 1999, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in, “Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands,” December 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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