"This is quite an exceptional event. In fact, it's the first cheetah birth in Europe in 2025," says a veterinarian at the Montpellier Zoo, where three cheetah cubs were born on January 24. It is a vulnerable species and breeding in captivity is rare.
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00:00There are three little cheetahs that were born here in the Montpellier Zoo.
00:10The mating took place here in the Montpellier Zoo.
00:13The mother was born here in 2018.
00:16They were born on the 24th of January and they are all doing very well.
00:21It is a species that is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
00:27It is a species that is endangered by nature.
00:30That is why there are conservation programmes called Ex-situ in zoos,
00:35and especially in European zoos,
00:37which form a reproduction programme for the cheetah.
00:41It is at the European level that the coordinator chooses which animals can reproduce together
00:47to try to maintain a sufficient genetic diversity.
00:54It is a rather exceptional event.
00:56It is the first birth in Europe in 2025,
00:59and it remains quite exceptional
01:02because there is a lot of failure in captivity reproduction.
01:06We are very happy to see that it is going well
01:10because these three little cheetahs will be able to strengthen the population of cheetahs
01:14in European zoos and the reproduction programme.