Africa Wild

I thought I would start this topic so we can have one place to follow the lives of the AW cheetah family that we, AW collectively, named. Whenever anyone has a sighting of them, or any news, please post here, (as well as wherever else (trip reports, etc) you choose to).

It will be fun to watch them as they split from Mom, have their own cubs, and watch the coalitions' paths, as well as Corinne's future cubs.

A brief recap: We voted in a poll on the names suggested by AW Forum members, all having to start with a "C", as their mom's name is Corinne. The winners were Carina and Cora for the females, and Casper and Chase for the males. Matthew has the license for the names, and they are now in his Cheetah Project Identification Guide.

First, I'll post some pics of them taken in 2014…..

Corrine and her cubs taken Oct.4, 2014 south of Auchterlonie.















Next up, a look at them taken on Oct. 27, 28, and 29, 2015

Here are individual pics of the family a little over a year later: (Please feel free to correct any misidentifications.)


Mom Corinne


Carina


Cora


Casper


Chase

Will get to our encounters with them by date as soon as I get a chance, but Christmas time activities are calling me away right now. Hope you enjoy watching them along with me.

Post away AW members!

That is such a wonderful idea, ExFmem!

I so hope that Corinne, and maybe even Hanri will take over from where Lisette and Elena left...
and become just as legendary cheetah mothers than their mother and aunt respectively.

Are we allowed to go into Corinne's childhood and pre-mom being with our photos, too?

super idea
will try to find Corrine and Co soon... very soon, to add some pictures

what splendid photos you have

By then you should be prepared to find them individually, nan... The "cubs" together, but without mum.

"and Co" is for all, separate or not

Very good, this!

Mel wrote:That is such a wonderful idea, ExFmem!

I so hope that Corinne, and maybe even Hanri will take over from where Lisette and Elena left...
and become just as legendary cheetah mothers than their mother and aunt respectively.

Are we allowed to go into Corinne's childhood and pre-mom being with our photos, too?

Sure, this is everybody's topic, you can take it wherever you would like.

Will try to make another entry later today.....in the meantime I'm waiting to see everybody else's pics/info.

We first encountered this family again 4 weeks into our trip, with only 5 days to go. I was SO wishing to see them, so this was one of the highlights of our visit.

10/27 6:30 AM @ Leeudril waterhole



Mother and Daughters


Carina, Mom, Cora


Carina, Chase, Mom

Eventually Mom reversed course and headed over the dune


The cubs all followed, chasing each other along the way.


They all appeared to be very healthy and lively, unlike Margie and Gus, unfortunately. Hope they are in better shape now