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The Northwest African Cheetah has very few if any spots(this is also characteristic of ticked or spotless cheetahs). It also doesn't commonly have the tear marks characteristic of cheetahs(this could be because it lives in one of the hottest of all deserts and so tear marks and spots would make the cheetah even hotter during its sprint).
So how do we know that it is in fact a subspecies of cheetah and not a new cat species in Acinonyx? I mean yes all species in Acinonyx including all the extinct ones have cheetah in their name but not all of them are cheetahs.
So how do we know that it is in fact a subspecies of cheetah and not a new cat species in Acinonyx? I mean yes all species in Acinonyx including all the extinct ones have cheetah in their name but not all of them are cheetahs.