The wild Cheetah population is believed to be around 6,600 mature individuals and decreasing. They are currently classified under the genus Acinonyx, whose closest living relatives are cougars and ...

"When the mother moved out of its den site, wildlife officials moved in to take visual confirmation but found the cubs dead," ...

Keeping in view the possibility that Kuno national park cheetah on being released in wild may reach up to Rajasthan, the ...

Cheetah Neerva's delivery of four cubs at Kuno National Park marks a significant boost for India's project to reintroduce ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Anticipation ripples through the crowd. Fingers tighten around binoculars. Camera lenses snap into focus. No fewer ...

IVF embryo transfers help scientists and zoos build a more robust and genetically healthy insurance population of cheetahs in human care and could potentially help the genetics of wild cheetahs too!

The animals were imported for sport in the 20th Century. Research showed that there were at least 230 cheetahs in the wild between 1799 and 1968. It is the only large mammal to become extinct ...