Just touched on that cheetahs don't have a very long life span. What is their life span? Like, and why is that? There are in the wild today only about 7,000 cheetahs left. They're found in Africa in about 20 countries and in captivity there's only about 1800 cheetahs living around the world. Here in Namibia, our animals are living to 16 to 18 years of age. In the zoos around the world, the captive life span is still maybe about 12 years of age and in the wild it's about 10 to 12 years of age. They have a very hard time in the wild because of a lot of factors that play a part of living in the wild. Domino's seeds, males and you know females raising their cubs so a lot of infant mortality.