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India welcomes back first cheetahs in 70 years

A cheetah prepares to run off a mound in Masai Mara National Park in Kenya. (Reuters File Photo)

NEW DELHI: Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats that has divided experts on its chances for success.

Officials say the project is the world’s first intercontinental relocation of cheetahs, the planet’s fastest land animal.

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