One more cheetah has been confirmed dead by wildlife authorities at the Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday. While a post-mortem is under way, the female nicknamed Dhatri and sourced from South Africa, is believed to have contracted a parasitic infection following repeatedly scratching its skin and wounding itself. This is the sixth death reported among the 20 cheetahs brought in from Namibia and South Africa.
Following reports that some of the previous deaths were likely from the collars worn by the cheetah, which lacerate their skin made fragile from humidity and further exposing them to parasites that they have no natural immunity to, several of the cheetah that were roaming in the wild were captured and brought back into the enclosures where their collars were removed and they were examined.
