BonsallBonsall — In recent months, disturbing videos and photos have flooded social media showing emaciated cheetah cubs confiscated from African smugglers aiming to sell the spotted wild cats as ...

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For decades, some people have kept big cats like cheetahs and panthers as exotic pets, attempting to domesticate them. It’s believed that around 20,000 of these big cats remain in captivity in the US, ...

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, ...

Blame social media for the population of cheetahs being wiped out. Every year, some 300 cubs are illegally trafficked out of Somaliland into the Arabian Peninsula, where they are often sold as pets ...

Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them. View on ...

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Three tiny balls of fur huddle together for warmth inside a cardboard box. The baby cheetahs are just a few weeks old, but they’ve had a traumatic start to life. A smuggler was attempting to spirit ...