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Spotless Cheetah

A spotless cheetah, now known as the ‘golden cheetah’, has been photographed around the Nairobi-Amboseli area in Kenya by wildlife artists Guy Combes and Mike Gaudaur. Its hugely diluted spots are believed to be as a result of a recessive gene (and not an albino or leucistic variation) which, according to Mongabay, makes this cheetah, like the king cheetah of South Africa and Zimbabwe, extremely unusual. The last time such a spotless cheetah was recorded was in the 1920s.

King Cheetah

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