Bhopal: A tragic incident took place in Kuno National Park, located in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, where a female cheetah named Dhatri faced a demise. A post mortem examination revealed that Dhatri succumbed to an infection caused by fly insects.
Following this incident the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) took to Twitter at night. They shared the cause of Dhatris’s death and emphasized that the fatal infection was a result of the spread of insect larvae.
During the mortem process the CCF team collaborated with medical professionals, from Kuno. Over the ten days they had been trying to sedate Dhatri while she was actively hunting in the forest.
To address the threat posed by fly larvae, caller IDs were removed from cheetahs within the park. The team now plans to test and use caller IDs made from materials. Additionally continuous health monitoring is being carried out for all cheetahs and efforts are being made to safely relocate a cheetah that has been freely roaming in the forest into an enclosure.
On March 27th, a cheetah named Sasha from Namibia sadly passed away due to complications in her kidneys, which were believed to have been acquired during her time in captivity. Sasha had been experiencing health issues ever since she arrived at Kuno. Following that, another cheetah named Uday became sick. Passed away on April 13th. Then on May 9th, Daksha, a cheetah brought from South Africa, tragically lost her life after an encounter with two male cheetahs during mating. During that month, three out of four cubs born to a Namibian cheetah also met an unfortunate fate and passed away.