The cub had become a source of national pride since its birth in May last year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TEHERAN - The last survivor of three critically endangered Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity in Iran died in hospital on Tuesday from kidney failure, state media reported.
“The loss of Pirouz and ineffectiveness of all the efforts made by the treatment team in the past few days to save the animal saddens me and all my colleagues, and we apologise to everyone that we could not keep this animal alive,” hospital director Omid Moradi told IRNA. Two other cubs born with him died that same month, but Pirouz survived at a time when only a dozen members of the species are left in the wild.
According to a 2017 study referenced by IUCN, the subspecies is confined only to Iran, where there were “less than 50 mature individuals”.
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