Five cheetah cubs born at South Australia’s Monarto Zoo
THE cheetah may be the fastest animal in the world but several cubs born at Adelaide’s Monarto Zoo are just finding their feet. SEE THE VIDEO
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THE cheetah may be the fastest animal in the world but several cubs born at Adelaide’s Monarto Zoo are just finding their feet.
Zoos SA has revealed that a litter of five was born at the open-range zoo less than two weeks ago to four-year-old mother Kesho.
The carnivore’s keepers are giving the mum and cubs complete privacy while monitoring the family through a security camera in their den. The cubs will make a public debut when they are old enough in the “not too distant future”, the zoo said in a statement.
Zoos SA is touting the litter’s birth, through its breeding program, as an important contribution to the regional cheetah population.
The animal is considered vulnerable to extinction in the wild, with just about 6700 remaining in the wild in eastern and southwestern Africa. The cubs’ mum was part of the last litter born at Monarto Zoo in 2012, while the father Innis has been at the facility on a breeding loan from the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra since last year.
