スミソニアン国立動物園のインスタグラム(smithsonianzoo) - 2月28日 02時17分

We are sad to share that Amani, one of our elderly cheetahs at SCBI has died. She was 13 years old, and one of the first cheetahs to live at SCBI’s 9-acre cheetah science facility and the first to give birth there. The birth of her first litter marked a turning point for cheetahs living in zoos and for scientists. Scientists were studying cheetah biology and trying to crack the code on the best ways to encourage them to breed. At the time, cheetahs were not having many cubs in zoos, which did not bode well for the species as a whole. Wild cheetah numbers were, and still are, declining dramatically in Africa. In response, scientists wanted to safeguard the future of the species by building an insurance population of cheetahs in zoos that were matched for breeding based on their genetic compatibility. Since Amani’s first litter of cubs, SCBI has become a founding member of the Cheetah Breeding Centers Coalition, which has focused on moving cheetahs recommended to breed by the Species Survival Plan to large facilities like SCBI. Since 2010, approximately 45 cubs have been born at zoos and breeding centers across North America each year, which is how many are needed to ensure the species is self-sustaining in human care. #WeSaveSpecies

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