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NEW DELHI: The Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), the donor company that offered eight cheetahs to India earlier than they had been launched at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) on September 17, has not confirmed that any of the 5 feminine cats are pregnant, a high forest official of the state stated at the moment.
“There is nothing to support the October 1 media reports that one of the female cheetahs is pregnant,” stated Madhya Pradesh Principal Chief Conservator of Forests J S Chauhan. According to experiences, one of many cheetahs, named Asha, has been “exhibiting all behavioural, physical and hormonal signs” of being pregnant. Asha was among the many cheetahs picked from the Namibian wilds.
But Chauhan, who dismissed the experiences, stated that “Neither has the donor company (CCF) confirmed nor have we carried out any check primarily based on which it may be stated that one of many cheetahs is pregnant.”
Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dean and Senior Scientist Dr Yadvendradev V Jhala, who and eight different researchers have been sustaining round the clock statement over the cheetahs, dismissed the experiences as being primarily based on “rumours”.
Disclosing that “ultrasonography tests were done on all the eight cheetahs”, Jhala stated that “it is possible that she had embryos which were at a very primitive stage and the long, stressful long flight,” might have taken its toll. A WII researcher, who’s a part of a staff, additionally dismissed the experiences, saying, “there is no indication that any of the female cheetahs are pregnant”.
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Each of the cheetahs is in separate (50 mt x 30 mt) enclosures through the ongoing month-long quarantine. “So there is no question that any male-female pair mated after reaching Kuno,” Chauhan stated.
The cheetahs “will be eligible” on October 17 for transferring to the larger enclosure – 5.5 sq km – the place they may be capable to hunt on their very own, Chauhan stated, including that “depending on their health and adaptability, they will remain in these nine enclosures for three to four months”.
Pointing out that in addition to the eight cheetahs, 12 others of the South African selection had been “earlier supposed to arrive together”, Chauhan stated that the second batch of the massive cats will now “hopefully reach here in October itself” offered the Indian and South African governments first signal a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
NEW DELHI: The Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), the donor company that offered eight cheetahs to India earlier than they had been launched at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) on September 17, has not confirmed that any of the 5 feminine cats are pregnant, a high forest official of the state stated at the moment.
“There is nothing to support the October 1 media reports that one of the female cheetahs is pregnant,” stated Madhya Pradesh Principal Chief Conservator of Forests J S Chauhan. According to experiences, one of many cheetahs, named Asha, has been “exhibiting all behavioural, physical and hormonal signs” of being pregnant. Asha was among the many cheetahs picked from the Namibian wilds.
But Chauhan, who dismissed the experiences, stated that “Neither has the donor company (CCF) confirmed nor have we carried out any check primarily based on which it may be stated that one of many cheetahs is pregnant.”
Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dean and Senior Scientist Dr Yadvendradev V Jhala, who and eight different researchers have been sustaining round the clock statement over the cheetahs, dismissed the experiences as being primarily based on “rumours”.
Disclosing that “ultrasonography tests were done on all the eight cheetahs”, Jhala stated that “it is possible that she had embryos which were at a very primitive stage and the long, stressful long flight,” might have taken its toll. A WII researcher, who’s a part of a staff, additionally dismissed the experiences, saying, “there is no indication that any of the female cheetahs are pregnant”.
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Each of the cheetahs is in separate (50 mt x 30 mt) enclosures through the ongoing month-long quarantine. “So there is no question that any male-female pair mated after reaching Kuno,” Chauhan stated.
The cheetahs “will be eligible” on October 17 for transferring to the larger enclosure – 5.5 sq km – the place they may be capable to hunt on their very own, Chauhan stated, including that “depending on their health and adaptability, they will remain in these nine enclosures for three to four months”.
Pointing out that in addition to the eight cheetahs, 12 others of the South African selection had been “earlier supposed to arrive together”, Chauhan stated that the second batch of the massive cats will now “hopefully reach here in October itself” offered the Indian and South African governments first signal a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
