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References

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• Attenborough, D. 1979. Life on earth. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 319 p.
• Caro, T. 1994. Cheetahs Of The Seregeti Plains. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Christiansen, P. and J. H. Mazák. 2009. A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106(2):512-515.
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• Marker, L. L., A. J. P. Wilkerson, R. J. Sarno, J. Martenson, C. Breitenmoser-Wursten, S. J. O'Brien, and W. E. Johnson. 2008. Molecular genetic insights on cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) ecology and conservation in Namibia. Journal of Heredity 99:2-13.
• May R. 1995. The cheetah controversy. Nature 374:309–10.
• Menotti-Raymond M, O'Brien SJ. 1993. Dating the genetic bottleneck of the African cheetah. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:3172–76.
• Merola M. 1994. A reassessment of homozygosity and the case for inbreeding depression in the cheetah Acinonyx jubatus: implications for conservation. Conserv. Biol. 8:961–71.
• Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org
• Nowak, R. 1999. Walker's Mammals Of The World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• O'Brien SJ. 1998. Intersection of population genetics and species conservation: The cheetah's dilemma. In Evolutionary Biology, Volume 30, ed. MK Hecht, RJ MacIntrye, MT Clegg. New York: Plenum Press.
• O'Brien SJ. 2003. Tears of the Cheetah and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• O'Brien, S., J., D. E. Wildt, D. Goldman, C. R. Merril, and M. Bush. 1983. The cheetah us depauperate in genetic variation. Science 221:459-462.
• O'Brien, S., J., M. Roelke, L .Marker, A. Newman, C. Winkler, D. Meltzer, L. Colly, J. Evermann, M. Bush, and D. E. Wildt. 1985. Genetic basis for species vulnerability in the cheetah. Science 227:1428-1434.
• R., Hoath.   (2003).  A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo..  
• Richard Weigl (2005) Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe 48: Stuttgart.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142
• Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. 2000. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204