Cheetah Sasha dies in MP’s Kuno park; huge cat had kidney ailment earlier than translocation 

By PTI

BHOPAL: Namibian cheetah Sasha died because of a kidney ailment on Monday, greater than 6 months after she was translocated together with seven different huge cats to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) from the African nation, a prime forest division official stated.

The demise of the greater than four-and-a-half years previous feminine feline is being seen as a setback to Project Cheetah, geared toward reviving the inhabitants of the world’s quickest land animal in India, seven a long time after they grew to become extinct.

Eight cheetahs had been introduced from Namibia in mid-September final 12 months and housed within the KNP in Sheopur district.

Sasha died due to a kidney ailment which she was affected by even earlier than her translocation from Namibia, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF-Wildlife) JS Chauhan instructed PTI.

“A monitoring team found Sasha lazy on March 22, following which they decided to take her to a quarantine enclosure for treatment,” he stated.

The wild animal’s blood pattern was collected the identical day and examined.

A wildlife knowledgeable armed with a transportable ultrasound machine went contained in the KNP to look at the ailing cheetah and it was discovered that Sasha’s kidneys had been contaminated, stated Chauhan.

Later, senior Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientists and KNP administration contacted the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Namibia, to know the therapy historical past of Sasha.

They discovered that in her final blood pattern, collected on August 15, 2022, (a month earlier than being translocated to KNP), the animal’s creatinine stage was 400 (an indicator of poor kidney operate), he stated.

The excessive creatinine stage clearly established that the feline was affected by a kidney ailment even earlier than she was translocated to the KNP, Chauhan stated in a press release.

Namibian wildlife specialists and KNP veterinary medical doctors labored laborious day and evening to treatment Sasha, however the animal didn’t survive, the forest official stated. The seven different cheetahs are doing effectively.

Among these seven, three male and a feminine had been launched within the park’s open forest space and they’re “totally healthy, active and hunting in a normal manner,” the assertion stated.

Twelve cheetahs dropped at the KNP from South Africa final month are at current housed in a quarantine enclosure and they’re wholesome and energetic, it added.

The eight Namibian cheetahs – 5 feminine and three male – had been launched into their enclosures on the KNP on September 17 at an occasion attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The final cheetah died in India in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the quickest land animal was declared extinct within the nation in 1952.

BHOPAL: Namibian cheetah Sasha died because of a kidney ailment on Monday, greater than 6 months after she was translocated together with seven different huge cats to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) from the African nation, a prime forest division official stated.

The demise of the greater than four-and-a-half years previous feminine feline is being seen as a setback to Project Cheetah, geared toward reviving the inhabitants of the world’s quickest land animal in India, seven a long time after they grew to become extinct.

Eight cheetahs had been introduced from Namibia in mid-September final 12 months and housed within the KNP in Sheopur district.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Sasha died due to a kidney ailment which she was affected by even earlier than her translocation from Namibia, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF-Wildlife) JS Chauhan instructed PTI.

“A monitoring team found Sasha lazy on March 22, following which they decided to take her to a quarantine enclosure for treatment,” he stated.

The wild animal’s blood pattern was collected the identical day and examined.

A wildlife knowledgeable armed with a transportable ultrasound machine went contained in the KNP to look at the ailing cheetah and it was discovered that Sasha’s kidneys had been contaminated, stated Chauhan.

Later, senior Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientists and KNP administration contacted the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Namibia, to know the therapy historical past of Sasha.

They discovered that in her final blood pattern, collected on August 15, 2022, (a month earlier than being translocated to KNP), the animal’s creatinine stage was 400 (an indicator of poor kidney operate), he stated.

The excessive creatinine stage clearly established that the feline was affected by a kidney ailment even earlier than she was translocated to the KNP, Chauhan stated in a press release.

Namibian wildlife specialists and KNP veterinary medical doctors labored laborious day and evening to treatment Sasha, however the animal didn’t survive, the forest official stated. The seven different cheetahs are doing effectively.

Among these seven, three male and a feminine had been launched within the park’s open forest space and they’re “totally healthy, active and hunting in a normal manner,” the assertion stated.

Twelve cheetahs dropped at the KNP from South Africa final month are at current housed in a quarantine enclosure and they’re wholesome and energetic, it added.

The eight Namibian cheetahs – 5 feminine and three male – had been launched into their enclosures on the KNP on September 17 at an occasion attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The final cheetah died in India in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the quickest land animal was declared extinct within the nation in 1952.