Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, ...

Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them. View on ...

For decades, some people have kept big cats like cheetahs and panthers as exotic pets, attempting to domesticate them. It’s believed that around 20,000 of these big cats remain in captivity in the US, ...

Even the fastest animal in the world can't outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts. Cheetah populations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures because hotter days are ...

Dec. 4 is International Cheetah Day. It was established in 2010 by the Cheetah Conservation Fund to raise awareness about the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- History was made at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Wednesday when two cheetah cubs were born using in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer into a surrogate mother, the first-ever ...

The Cheetah Cub Cam is a unique way to get acquainted with the vulnerable species, said Adrienne Crosier, a cheetah biologist at SCBI. From Smithsonian Institution Nestled in their heated den, the ...

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Cincinnati Zoo's cheetah cubs become conservation ambassadors, contributing to efforts to save their endangered species.

To be clear, Bengal cats have zero cheetah DNA in them, but you might not know that based on how crazy they act sometimes.