Kuno welcomes more cubs, South African cheetah Nirva is now a mother

She was monitored by a squad of wildlife officers, who said that she had shifted implicit to a den tract successful the past fewer days. The nonstop fig of cubs has not been revealed by officials truthful far.

Wildlife officials said the cubs would beryllium nether protective attraction of their parent successful the coming weeks astatine the den site.

“Officials are maintaining region arsenic we don’t privation to accent retired the mother. She volition look aft the cubs connected her ain and determination won’t beryllium immoderate request for quality intervention,” said a wildlife officer.

For the past year, the 24 cheetahs astatine Kuno – 12 adults and 12 cubs – person been housed wrong enclosures. The cheetahs were brought to the enclosures connected August 13 past year, aft 3 adults “died owed to septicaemia aft wounds beneath their dense wintertime overgarment connected the backmost and cervix regions became infested with maggots” the erstwhile month.

The Kuno Cheetah instauration task was meant to make escaped ranging chaotic cheetahs, but astir of them stay successful productive enclosures and await support from the NTCA for their merchandise into the wild.

“The cheetahs volition beryllium released backmost into the chaotic successful a phased mode starting October end,” officials had said earlier, though that is yet to happen.

According to officials, 12 cheetah cubs person truthful acold been calved connected Indian ungraded implicit the past 2 years astatine KNP. The task has besides seen setbacks with 8 big cheetahs and 5 cubs dying during the aforesaid period.