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My Territory!

            Cats are territorial animals. They need to feel safe in their space and they need it to be clear to other cats that they are, in fact, the owner of that space. The best-known feline territory marking behaviour is urine spraying: Males and females,  can spray when they feel the need to plant “no trespassing” signs. 
Scent is used to identify members of the same colony, define territory, create familiarity, announce sexual readiness, learn more about unfamiliar cats in the environment, self-soothe, bond with another, or as a form of covert aggression.
The pheromones associated with the back end of the cat, such as the ones released during urine-marking are high-intensity. There’s nothing calm about those pheromones. When a cat sprays it’s done under stressful or exciting circumstances.
And with all that incredible scent depositing going on in a cat’s environment, it’s a good thing he also has such a highly developed sniffer to decode all the information left by other cats’ pheromones. 

This Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is from the Furious Five (Tano Bora) Pride and was captured spraying this tree with urine during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. 
   

Taken in: Kenya / Narok / Talel (show map)

Taken on: October 13, 2019

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Camera: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, f/6.3, 1/500 sec, 300mm, ISO 2000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
Lens:	EF200-400mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	2000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 22.1 (Macintosh)
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