Two-month-old cheetah cub dies in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park

The monitoring team found that one of the four cubs of feline ‘Jwala’ was lying at the spot 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, a Forest department release said.

A cheetah cub, born at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh two months back, died on May 23, 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.

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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, it said.

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