Not much was known about the East African cheetah's evolutionary story, although at first, the East and Southern African cheetahs were thought to be identical as the genetic distance between the two subspecies is low.
Tidak banyak yang mengetahui cerita evolusioner Citah Afrika timur, meskipun pada awalnya, citah Afrika timur dan selatan dianggap sama sebagai jarak genetika antara dua subspesies yang rendah.