An Indian Air Force (IAF) plane carrying 12 cheetahs from South Africa landed in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior on Saturday morning, from where they will be taken to the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, around 165 kms from here, and released into quarantine enclosures. These cheetahs – seven males and five females – comprise the second set of big cats coming to the state, with the first group of eight from Namibia having been released into the KNP on September 17 last year at a function by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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