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Like dire wolf, Indian cheetah likely to growl again with genome sequencing

LUCKNOW: Like for the dire wolf, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago and was "de-extincted" in US recently, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in the city, in collaboration ...
The Aspen Times

Revered zoologist visits Aspen to discuss cheetah conservation

The nonprofit works to study cheetahs, develop conservation programs, and share their findings through education, emphasizing the importance of the cheetah to a healthy ecosystem. When a cheetah, for ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cheetahs and dogs have been pals for decades at the Cincinnati Zoo. We learned how it works

Rozi, a 2-year-old cheetah, came to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden from the Wildlife Safari in Oregon in 2022 as a single cub, rejected by her mother. But she wasn't alone for long. Through the ...
OPB

Cheetah researcher and conservationist Laurie Marker shares how her career began in Oregon

Her career began when she moved to Oregon in the early 1970s to open the third winery in the state. She began working at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon, to help support her business. This move ...
WGBH

She raised a cheetah cub in the ’70s. Now, she’s saving them from extinction.

Back in the 1970s, Dr. Laurie Marker hand-raised a cheetah cub and successfully taught it to hunt, sparking a lifelong mission. Since then, she’s built the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, a ...
CNN

Scientists extracted DNA from mummified cheetah remains and made a surprising discovery

When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife in 2022 and 2023, they came across something unexpected: seven naturally mummified ...