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Chasing cheetahs : the race to save Africa's fastest cats / written by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.

by Montgomery, Sy.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2014.

599.759096 M788cc

Cheetah Conservation Fund -- Juvenile literature.

Cheetah -- Africa -- Juvenile literature.

Scientists in the field.

9780547815497 (hbk.)

0547815492 (hbk.)

69 p. : ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Meet the ambassadors -- Fast facts on the fastest cats -- Chapter 2. Laurie's story: "somebody" was me -- Chapter 3. Saving cats with dogs -- The goats who help train farmers -- Chapter 4. Messages written in scent -- Taking the measure of a tree -- Chapter 5. Cooking with poop and toasting hair -- Secrets of DNA -- Chapter 6. Game drive -- The crucial role of predators -- Conservancies: sharing the wealth of wildlife -- Chapter 7. boot camp for cheetahs -- Chapter 8. A checkup for Blondi -- Cheetahs by the numbers -- Chapter 9. A visit to the future -- Laurie's advise for saving the world.

Describes the cheetah's essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in which Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting cohabitation between cheetahs and farmers.

Bishop, Nic, 1955-

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