Meet Iranian cheetahs Delbar and Kooshki at their home in Pardisan Park northwest of Tehran. Today there are only between 30 and 50 of these critically endangered animals, also known as the Asiatic cheetah, in Iran. Conservationists around the world work hard to raise awareness of the cheetahs in a bid to keep them from dying out, as Iranian lions and Asian tigers have already done.
Photos: Vahid Khodadadi , ANA news agency
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