Yao Ming, a retired Chinese professional basketball player, scrubs a cheetah at the Nairobi National Park on August 16, 2012. Mr Yao Ming was in the country for a campaign on conservation. Photo/FILE
In conservationist Mary Wykstra’s notebook from years ago, a scribbled line about the cheetah reads: “To look into the eyes of a cheetah… shows a history unknown to man.”
“I don’t know who the author of the line is,” said Wykstra. “But when I look into the eyes of a cheetah, it’s like they are saying, ‘help me.’”
