The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Backyard, in Ohio, USA, has adopted an emotional assist pet for considered one of its cheetah cubs.
As Rozi the cheetah was born as the one cub in her litter, her mom gained’t be capable of make sufficient milk for her.
Because of this, she must be hand-reared and requires some further animal companionship – in any other case there’s a danger she gained’t be capable of socialise with others of her type when she’s older.
That is the place Daisy the pup – who was adopted from Animal Rescue Fund – comes into play.
Daisy and Rozi shall be playmates on the zoo, in a bid to assist maintain the latter from feeling lonely and anxious as she grows.
Zoos have been pairing lonely cubs with pups for years, and Daisy isn’t the primary canine to come back stay on the Cincinnati Zoo.
One other cheetah, Kris, has grown up with a canine pal known as Remus – they met in 2019 and nonetheless have play dates collectively.
In response to one other publish, these two will maintain hanging out till it turns into obvious that ‘Kris prefers time extra on her personal than with Remus’.
The zoo first shared information of Rozi’s arrival in Could with a really cute Fb video, which exhibits her toddling towards the digicam.
A rep wrote on the zoo’s publish: ‘Say hi there to our latest cheetah ambassador! Radiographs previous to the cub’s start revealed that the mother, who lives at Wildlife Safari in Oregon, was carrying a single cub.
‘When a single cub is born, the mother won't produce sufficient milk for it to outlive. Figuring out that the cub would must be hand-reared, the cheetah Species Survival Plan (SSP) recognized Cincinnati Zoo as the very best place for this cub to be raised.’
The publish goes on to say that their neonatal staff shall be caring for the (then) four-week-old feminine.
As soon as she’s older, she shall be a member of their Cat Ambassador Program (CAP) and be part of their different cheetah ambassadors within the Cheetah Encounter.
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