Gwalior: In the wake of continuous deaths of cheetahs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, experts from Namibia and South Africa conducted tests on cheetahs. Apart from that, all the cheetahs caught in the open forest of Kuno National Park have been shifted to a bigger enclosure and the radio collars of six cheetahs have been removed after it came to light that infection and the subsequent wounds due to the radio collar could be the cause behind the death of some cheetahs.
A total of 11 cheetahs, including six males and five females, have been put in the enclosure. The remaining four cheetahs are in the open forest. Tests will be conducted on those cheetahs also. It may be recalled that the team that came to conduct the health check-up on Saturday evening tranquilised the male cheetah named Pawan and shifted it to the big enclosure and its health test is being done.
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According to the team of experts, cheetah ‘Pawan’ is completely healthy as per the preliminary investigation, but will be kept in the bigger enclosure till the next health test. It is being said that a total of 11 cheetahs, including six males and five females, are living in the large enclosure of Kuno National Park. The remaining four cheetahs are in the open forest and will also be tested one by one. After wounds and infection on the necks of three cheetahs radio collar IDs have been removed from the necks of six cheetahs after the opinion of South African and Namibian experts of Kuno National Park. They can also remove the collars from other cheetahs.
