Friday, 27 April 2012

We visited a Cheetah Sanctuary

The Center was established in 1971, previously known as the De Wildt Cheetah Centre it has recently been changed to The Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre as a tribute to the woman who devoted her life to the survival of the cheetah species. Her story is great! What started out as a small farm has not turned into a vast land to breed cheetahs and african wild dogs. Below are pictures we took during our tour of the farm. Cute....


Cheetah, was looking at us because we also were carrying the food.

 The wild dogs were very intersting, they made a high pitch cackle as we approached. Itis their rally call we were told. They were excited because it was feeding time. It was amazing to see how fast they ate. The have to do so because in the wild they feed off of leftovers and thus get as much as they can before others come.


Here Steph is infront of the Honey Badgers Den! A highlight of the tour!


Below is an albino Honey Badger, they are very rare but do exist!

 Before our tour of the farm we got some one on one time with an ambasador cheetah! That was an awesome experience.



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