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PHOTO OF THE DAY March 11, 2004  

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Where Okavango Delta, Botswana
When 1999
Photographer Chris Johns

“Bloodstained from its last meal, a cub shows features of a hunter built for speed. During sprints, a membrane shields eyes while large nostrils allow for rapid oxygen intake. Dark ‘tearstains’ may block glare.”

—From “Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands,” December 1999, National Geographic magazine

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