It’s an OMG moment that within minutes of landing at Ol Pejeta, the wildlife conservancy on the equator, a cheetah struts the plains. We follow her at a respectable distance. She’s calm, she’s confident and marks her territory by peeing on the acacia trees.
Showing her picture to the guides at Ol Pejeta, Leila Amankwar, who doubles up as the guide at Ol Pejeta’s chimpanzee sanctuary, thinks it is Nyokabi, the famous cheetah named after the conservancy’s first female ranger. She had a litter of four and one of the cubs is Zawadi named after Zacharia Kipkirui Mutai, the head rhino caretaker.
