Cheetah ‘Gamilni’ Gave Birth to 6 Cubs, not 5, Confirm Kuno National Park Staff After 8 Days

New Delhi: Despite having 24×7 monitoring and surveillance of Cheetahs in the park, the staff of the Kuno National Park took eight days to ascertain that South-African Cheetah ‘Gamini’ has actually given birth to six cubs, not five.

On March 10, Union Forests and Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav had informed that Gamini had given birth to her first litter of five cubs.

On Monday the minister informed that the five-year-old cheetah mother had given birth to six cubs.

”Gamini’s legacy leaps forward!

There is no end to joy: It is not five, but six cubs! A week after the news of five cubs born to Gamini, it is now confirmed that Gamini, the South African cheetah mother, has given birth to six cubs, a record of sorts for a first-time mother. Sharing the joy with visuals of Gamini’s adorable six cubs…,” he wrote while sharing the picture of the cubs.

The minister updated the data after a surveillance team of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department found that there are actually six cubs of Gamini and not five.

With the six cubs born to Gamini, the total number of Cheetahs in the KNP has gone up to 27, including 13 adults and 14 cubs.

Under the ambitious Cheetah reintroduction Project, on 17 September 2022 eight Namibian Cheetahs — five females and three males were introduced into special enclosures at the KNP located in the Sheopur district of MP. In February 2023, another set of 12 Cheetahs were brought to the KNP from South Africa.