60 February 2017| PORTFOLIONATUREAn eight-week-old cheetah cub plays
with its mother in Kenya’s Maasai Mara
Reserve. Some scientists have
suggested that the silvery mantle of
young cheetahs – shed as they grow
older – offers them some protection by
mimicking the appearance of the
notoriously aggressive honey badger.54 February 2017