Another Cheetah, Tejas, Dies In MP's Kuno National Park, Seventh Death In Last Five Months

JE News Desk: Another Cheetah Tejas has died in the Kuno National Park. Tejas was alone in the enclosure built in the park and injury marks were found on his neck on Tuesday morning. However how did the injury happen, due to which he lost his life, is still not ascertained.

Kuno National Park's DFO PK Verma said that investigation is on to find out how this injury happened because there was no cheetah besides Tejas in that enclosure. Presently there are only five cheetahs in different enclosures of the national park.

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According to the information given by the Kuno management, at 11 am on Tuesday, the monitoring team noticed injury marks on the upper part of the neck of the male cheetah Tejas. This information was given to the wildlife doctors present at Palpur headquarter. Tejas was inspected by wildlife doctors at the spot, Nai Dunia reported.

Prima facie the wounds were found to be serious. Tejas was sedated and a team of doctors reached the spot to treat the injured beast, but Tejas was found dead at around 2 pm. How Tejas received these injuries is being probed. The cause of death can be ascertained only after the post-mortem, authorities said.

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This is the fourth death of among adult Cheetahs. A total of 20 cheetahs were brought from South Africa and Namibia. Apart from the adults, out of four cubs born here, three cubs have also died. 12 Cheetahs are currently in the open forest.

A female Cheetah named Sasha had died on March 27 due to kidney-related ailment. Then on April 23, another Cheetah Uday died due to cardio-pulmonary failure and then Daksha died after due to a violent encounter with a male during a failed mating attempt.

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On May 25, two cheetah cubs died due to extreme weather condition and dehydration. Another Cheetah cub died soon after.

The Centre, which embarked on this ambitious programme to re-introduce Cheetahs in India earlier this year despite concerns raised by experts, had denied any lapses in its planning after these aforementioned deaths. Eventually, the Environment Ministry did take responsibility for the deaths.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had himself released the Cheetahs in the Kuno National Park.