By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — Three cheetah cubs born to a giant cat dropped at India from Africa final yr died prior to now week in central India’s Kuno National Park. Officials didn’t say what brought about the deaths however a sweltering warmth wave in India is believed to have weakened the cubs. They have been the primary to be born in India in additional than seven many years. Once widespread in India, cheetahs turned extinct in 1952 from looking and habitat loss. Their mom was among the many 20 that India flew in from Namibia and South Africa as part of an formidable and hotly contested plan to reintroduce them to Indian grasslands.