✨Pet cheetahs with Vadodara cheetah keepers and their families in 1895...
🌊At the time of India's independence, only three leopards were left alive in the country, which were hunted by the King of Korea.
🌊Eight cheetahs brought from Namibia will be released in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. At the time of independence from India, which was sometimes considered the home of the cheetah, the cheetah species became completely extinct. In 1947, the country's last three leopards were hunted by Maharaja Ramanuja Pratap Singh Dev of the then Madhya Pradesh and now Chhattisgarh's Koria Kingdom. His photo is also in the Bombay Natural History Society. Leopards have never been seen in India since that day. Now after 75 years the leopard is coming to India. Leopard habitat in India has a very long history. The earliest mention of the leopard is in the 12th century Sanskrit document Manasolasa. This document was prepared by the Kalyani Chalukya ruler Somesvara III who ruled between 1127 and 1138.
What happened in the time of the kings?
🌊Divya Bhanu Singh, former president of the Bombay Natural History Society, has written a book on cheetahs. It is called The End of a Trail - The Cheetah in India. It is said that the presence of leopards has been observed in India during the reigns of different kings. It is said that during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar from 1556 to 1605, there were more than 10 thousand leopards in the country. Akbar also had many leopards. Which he used for hunting. Many reports even claim that Akbar alone had more than a thousand leopards. Akbar's son Jahangir hunted more than 400 deer with the help of leopards in Pala pargana. Not only Akbar, the Mughal period and all subsequent kings started using leopards for hunting. As the kings began to capture cheetahs for hunting, they started keeping cheetahs like dogs and cats. This caused the cheetah's reproduction rate to drop and their population to decline steadily, until the early twentieth century, when the Indian cheetah population dwindled to hundreds, and princes began importing African animals. About 200 leopards were imported between 1918 and 1945. Leopards were poached during the British rule.
Orchha Naresh had a white leopard, used for hunting...
🌊In 1608, Maharaja Raja Veer Singh Dev of Orchha had a white leopard. These cheetahs used to have blue spots instead of black on their backs. It is also mentioned by Jahangir in his book Tujuk-e-Jahangiri. It is said to be the only leopard of its kind. After that, the hunting of leopards also started gradually, those that survived were also killed by the passion of the kings and the British. In the time of the British there was a reward for hunting leopards. There was a reward of 6 rupees for killing a cheetah cub and 12 rupees for killing an adult cheetah.
What are the characteristics of a leopard?
🔹A leopard can run at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
🔸A leopard makes four leaps every second.
🔹A cheetah's record speed can last for a maximum of one minute.
🔸He can run only up to 450 meters at his full speed.
🔹Cheetah has a smaller head compared to tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar.
🔸Due to this, the air friction against his head during high speed is reduced.
🔹A leopard's skull is made of thin bones, due to which its head weighs less.
🔸At its fastest speed, a leopard can leap 23 feet or about seven meters long.
The physical appearance of the cheetah is special
🌊According to the research done in 1973 at Howard, the body temperature of a cheetah is usually 38 degrees. But as soon as it picks up speed, it increases to 40.5 degrees Celsius, the cheetah's brain cannot tolerate that heat and it suddenly stops running. Cheetah muscles require a lot of oxygen while running. To maintain this oxygen supply, the cheetah has a large breathing tube along with its nostrils. So that it can take more oxygen by breathing less often. Leopard's eyes are in a straight direction. Due to this, it can easily see for many miles. This allows the cheetah to estimate how far its prey is from it. Its eye has an image stabilization system. Due to which it keeps focus on its prey even while running. Leopard claws are curved and grippy. While running it makes a grip with the help of claws and can jump forward easily. Not only that, it can hold prey strongly with its claws. A cheetah has a 31-inch long tail that acts as a radar. It helps balance on sudden turns. The heart of a cheetah is three and a half times larger than that of a lion. That is why he gets more oxygen while running. It quickly pumps blood through the leopard's body. delivering oxygen to its muscles, the cheetah chases its prey, usually within a range of 200-230 feet, and uses its claws to hang onto the prey's tail, if it fails to kill the prey in the process, it abandons the chase. . It breaks the prey's bones with its claws. After catching the prey, it slits its neck for about five minutes so that the prey dies. However, small prey often die at first.
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