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Cheetah In Zoo
Meet Nia Faye, a seven-week-old cheetah cub at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. She may be adorable, but she’s had a bit of a rough start to her short life.
After her birth on July 2 at the zoo’s cheetah-breeding facility, Nia Faye’s mother, Purdy, failed to “provide adequate care,” which in nature sometimes means that a mother simply ignores her cub. To help Nia, the zoo moved the newborn to their nursery, where she spent the next several weeks feeding from a bottle and learning to socialize with the help of a house-cat companion named Mashka.
This week, Nia Faye is making her zoo debut. Though she will remain at the nursery for the time being, she is now on exhibit. Once she’s ready to leave the nursery, Nia Faye will become part of the zoo’s Cat Ambassador Program, helping zoo visitors learn about cheetahs and cheetah conservation. She won’t be alone; four of the eight cheetahs born on the continent over the past two years were born at the Cincinnati Zoo, bringing the zoo’s all-time total to 37 cheetah cubs. Must be something in the water.
