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Litter of Four Cheetah Cubs Are Born at Front Royal Campus, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, are ...
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Cheetah Trafficking Networks Threaten Survival of the Species

Cheetah trafficking seems to be on the rise, according to Dr. Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund and here's how it works.
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Litter of 4 cheetah cubs born at Smithsonian’s Front Royal Zoo

A litter of four cheetah cubs was born on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus in October.
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She raised a cheetah cub in the ’70s. Now, she’s saving them from extinction.

Back in the 1970s, Dr. Laurie Marker hand-raised a cheetah cub and successfully taught it to hunt, sparking a lifelong mission. Since then, she’s built the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, a ...