A young cheetah has died of gunshot wounds in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, raising questions about how an animal that officials say is tracked around the clock came to be shot.
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A cheetah that killed a calf in a village on the edge of India’s only wild cheetah population was beaten by residents and left seriously wounded, according to an activist’s account that has not been confirmed.
Gaurav, one of the eight Namibian cheetahs that founded India’s cheetah reintroduction programme in 2022, died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, four days after an India-born cheetah at the same reserve gave birth to a second litter, having lost her first four cubs to suspected predation in May.
A male hoolock gibbon has used an artificial canopy bridge over a railway line in Assam — the first documented instance anywhere in the world of a gibbon crossing a railway canopy structure. Meanwhile, 22 days after four cheetah cubs were found dead at Kuno, the post-mortem findings remain unpublished.
Four one-month-old cubs of female cheetah KGP12 — born in the wild on April 11 — were found dead near their den site in Sheopur on May 12. The Cheetah Project says the mother is safe, and India’s total cheetah count now stands at 53.