How to determine the gender of mammals from appearance or behaviour

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If you see a cheetah marking territory, it's a male stop! lol


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Kalahari Cheetahs

Coalitions and single males in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

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Kalahari Cheetahs: Adaptations to an Arid Region
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In the Serengeti study, 41% of the adult males were solitary, 40% lived in pairs, and 19% lived in trios (Caro and Collins 1987a).


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Kalahari Cheetahs

Sibling groups in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

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Lisbeth wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:38 am If you see a cheetah marking territory, it's a male stop! lol
Females also urine-mark, with increasing frequency as they come into oestrus, but less actively than males.


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Looking at all the info collected here, the sex guessing is only with single adults \O

Anyone with some sightings for discussion?

Has anyone seen a sibling group?

Stats say that single males are frequent, but I think, I have never seen one as far as I remember -O-


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This is a matter for Mel O** But then I am not sure if they behave in the same way e.g. in Kruger and in KTP & Namibia -O-


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Lisbeth wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:43 pm This is a matter for Mel O** But then I am not sure if they behave in the same way e.g. in Kruger and in KTP & Namibia -O-
There is no data for Kruger.

But different habitat usually also enforces different behaviour (prey species, avoiding other predators, easier access to mates, territories).

A very old study with small sample size from Kruger says: Females prefer the more wooded areas and males are more in the open areas, because females need better cover for their young and they hunt mostly impala. Males are said to walk more often on roads.

We wait for Mel, what she can tell us from KTP. :yes:


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As far as I know, in Kruger one gets males singly or in small coalitions of siblings? In my experience, limited indeed, the males lay around or fool around and are not very goal-oriented... lol

But very into scent-marking and climbing fallen trees for that. :yes:


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Here are two males on the S3 near Phabeni last year:
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