Bhopal, May 23
A cheetah cub, born at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh two months back, died on Tuesday, the forest department said.
The latest fatality took the death toll of cheetahs in KNP to four in the last two months, including three felines translocated from African countries.
Prima facie, the cub died of weakness, a Forest department release said.
“The monitoring team found that one of the four cubs of feline ‘Jwala’ was lying at the spot where they were spotted earlier while three other cubs were roaming with their mother.
The team alerted veterinarians who rushed to the spot and gave necessary treatment to the cub, but it died,” the release said.
It seems the cub died because of weakness as it was weak since birth, said the release.
Cheetah Jwala, earlier known as Siyaya, was brought from Namibia to KNP in Sheopur district in September 2022. She gave birth to four cubs in the last week of March this year.
Cheetahs were reintroduced in India, 70 years after the species was declared extinct.
One of the Namibian cheetahs, Sasha, succumbed to a kidney-related ailment on March 27, while another cheetah, Uday, from South Africa, died on April 13.
Daksha, a cheetah brought from South Africa, died of injuries following a violent interaction with a male during a mating attempt on May 9.
