Mere months after they were brought to India and introduced to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, a cheetah has passed away. According to forest officials the four-and-a-half years old female cheetah – named Sasha – died due to a kidney problem. She had been one of the eight animals translocated from Namibia in September last year.
Officials said that the feline had not been keeping well since her arrival. She was recently taken back to a quarantine enclosure at KNP for treatment. Sasha’s creatinine level was above 400 (an indicator of poor kidney function) which resulted in her death.
Earlier reports had suggested that she was in quarantine BOMA and being provided buffalo meat due to weakness. A month earlier, officials had said that the cheetah was ‘about to shift into a soft predator-free enclosure’.
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Seven decades after they became extinct in India, eight cheetahs had been brought to Madhya Pradesh and released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2022. This was followed by the arrival of 12 cheetahs from South Africa earlier this year as part of the ambitious project to reintroduce the majestic animal in Indian forests.
Last week two more Namibian cheetahs had been released into the wild at the Kuno National Park – bringing the total tally up to four. The group of eight had comprised five females and three males.
(With inputs from agencies)
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