Namibian cheetah Sasha dies in MP’s Kuno park attributable to kidney ailment
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By PTI
BHOPAL: Namibian cheetah Sasha died attributable to a kidney ailment on Monday, greater than 6 months after she was translocated together with seven different massive cats to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) from the African nation, a prime forest division official mentioned.
The dying 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 many years after they grew to become extinct.
Eight cheetahs have 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 mentioned.
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 have been contaminated, mentioned 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 perform), he mentioned.
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 mentioned in a press release.
Namibian wildlife specialists and KNP veterinary docs labored onerous day and night time to remedy Sasha, however the animal didn’t survive, the forest official mentioned. The seven different cheetahs are doing effectively.
Among these seven, three male and a feminine have been launched within the park’s open forest space and they’re “totally healthy, active and hunting in a normal manner,” the assertion mentioned.
Twelve cheetahs delivered to the KNP from South Africa final month are at current housed in a quarantine enclosure and they’re wholesome and lively, it added.
The eight Namibian cheetahs – 5 feminine and three male – have 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 attributable to a kidney ailment on Monday, greater than 6 months after she was translocated together with seven different massive cats to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) from the African nation, a prime forest division official mentioned.
The dying 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 many years after they grew to become extinct.
Eight cheetahs have been introduced from Namibia in mid-September final 12 months and housed within the KNP in Sheopur district.googletag.cmd.push(perform() 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 mentioned.
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 have been contaminated, mentioned 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 perform), he mentioned.
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 mentioned in a press release.
Namibian wildlife specialists and KNP veterinary docs labored onerous day and night time to remedy Sasha, however the animal didn’t survive, the forest official mentioned. The seven different cheetahs are doing effectively.
Among these seven, three male and a feminine have been launched within the park’s open forest space and they’re “totally healthy, active and hunting in a normal manner,” the assertion mentioned.
Twelve cheetahs delivered to the KNP from South Africa final month are at current housed in a quarantine enclosure and they’re wholesome and lively, it added.
The eight Namibian cheetahs – 5 feminine and three male – have 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.
