A cheetah brought from South Africa to India has died, wildlife officials said, the second such death within a month in a country where the big spotted cat was declared extinct seven decades ago.
So far, 12 cheetahs from South Africa and eight from Namibia have been brought to India after its top court ruled in 2020 that the species should be reintroduced.
Tests are being conducted to determine the cause of death, Amit Mallick of India's national tiger conservation programme told AFP.Authorities said they were not informed of the ailment before the Namibian group was flown to India six months earlier. The spotted feline's reintroduction in India is the first intercontinental relocation of the planet's fastest land animal.
Researchers and scientists from the Cheetah Research Project of Leibniz-IZW in Namibia have recently said the relocation programme ignored"spatial ecology" and the size of Kuno National Park was much less than the big cats usually need to thrive.
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