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Gerald Imray

A sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save the world's fastest land animal from extinction

For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use them.

But she worries that the world's fastest land animal might one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save it.

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