Cheetah gives birth to four cubs at park in India. Watch precious video of the babies

Four cheetah cubs were born at an Indian national park, a video shared by officials shows.

The tiny cubs can be seen snuggling up to one another, their eyes barely open, in a video shared by Kuno National Park on March 29. The park said their birth is a “milestone event.”

The news comes days after the park announced another of its cheetahs died from a kidney infection March 27.

The babies’ mother was one of several cheetahs relocated from Namibia to India in September as part of a species reintroduction effort, officials told India Today.

Cheetahs were declared extinct from India in 1952 after the once flourishing population was wiped out by hunters and habitat loss, according to the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. In 2022, officials proposed a plan to reintroduce the species to India.

Under the new plan, 10 to 12 cheetahs will be relocated from African countries to India every year for at least five years. As part of this plan, on Sept. 17, eight cheetahs were moved from Namibia to India — including the new cubs’ mother.

An additional 12 cheetahs were relocated to India from South Africa in February, according to officials.

In March, one of the cats was spotted roaming through the open forest, marking the first such sighting in 70 years, the park said in an earlier statement.

Google Translate was used to translate statements and posts from Kuno National Park.

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