We’ve recently received another boost to our biodiversity on our game reserve! Two Cheetahs are currently in a boma (enclosure) getting used to the sights and sounds and smells of their new surroundings before we release them back into the wild.
This is all part of our expansion program, reintroducing animals that would’ve previously naturally occurred here.
In the case of our Lions, Elephants and now the Cheetah we’ve had to intervene and reintroduce them into the reserve. In the meanwhile our lions and elephants were introduced a while back have been doing very well, and they are having offspring already.
These two male cheetahs are brothers and they will form a life long coalition. In general Cheetahs are solitary animals, except when there is a mother with cubs, or a coalition of males. Males and females only come together when the female comes into oestrus and she is ready to mate.
We hope to release them into the reserve in the near future, and we are only keeping them in the boma to allow them to settle down into their new environment. Once they’ve been released, the intention is to then bring a female into the boma.
Once she’s also settled and released they will form the nucleus of our breeding group.
We can’t wait for them to be released and to be able to view them roaming around freely. An exciting new animal to view for our guests when on safari with us in the very near future!