Bhopal: Another cheetah brought from abroad has lost its life in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park. The name of the cheetah that has died this time is Uday, who was brought from South Africa to Kuno. Prior to which the female Cheetah Shasa had lost her life. Cheeta Uday died at 4 pm on Sunday. The Forest Department team had seen in the morning that disturbances were also visible in his health. After which he was tranquilized and brought to the medical center but he died at 4 pm.
Uday was a South African cheetah and arrived for Kuno on 18 February this year along with 11 other cheetahs. The Veterinary team is going to do the postmortem of Uday's body on Monday. Veterinary experts from Bhopal and Jabalpur have been sent to Kuno for postmortem. Videography and photography of the entire postmortem is going to be done. Reports say that this is the second death of cheetahs in Kuno. 20 cheetahs were brought to Kuno National Park from Namibia and South Africa, of which 18 are now left.
Not only this, after the completion of the quarantine period in the month of April, African cheetahs have been released from a large enclosure into the open forest. Out of 12 cheetahs brought to Kuno from South Africa on February 18, three male cheetahs were released from the quarantine enclosure to the larger enclosure on April 17. And on April 18 and April 19, the remaining 9 cheetahs have also been released in the big enclosure of Kuno.
The cheetahs released in the big enclosure were hunting there themselves. There are plenty of chital, jackal, rabbits, deer and other wild animals in the large enclosure. The Cheetah project progressed in a phased manner. Namibian Cheetahs were successfully shifted to Kuno Park. Presently four cheetahs have been released in the open forest.
And the remaining Namibian cheetahs are present in the big enclosure. After getting the permission of DAHD (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying), on the instructions of senior officials, all the 12 cheetahs brought from South Africa in the last two days have been shifted to a bigger enclosure.
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