The fastest land animal on the planet, this lightweight feline has remarkable bodily adaptations for amazing swiftness and agility for predation Currently, there are two extant sub-species of the cheetah in the world – the African (Acinonyx jubetus jubetus) and the Asiatic (Acinonyx jubetus venaticus). The extinction of the Asiatic cheetah from India in 1952 or thereabouts was a blow to the concepts of wildlife and biodiversity conservation. Thanks to the nascency of these ph