Asiatic cheetahs forced to hunt livestock

[devilfish]

The decline in suitable wild ungulates has led cheetahs to start picking on livestock, rather than hares and smaller mammals, as had been expected.

But fortunately the livestock herders don't seem too conscious of what's going on.

BBC Nature - Asiatic cheetahs forced to hunt livestock

 

[nanoboy]

Another case of herders allowing their livestock to graze illegally in wildlife reserves. I suspect that Iran has bigger fish to fry, like the 2013 invasion by coalition forces to destroy their nuclear facilities.