Overview

• The eight-week-old female, named Assama, was shown to visitors in Landau after gaining strength and reaching about 2.6 kilograms.
• Director Jens-Ove Heckel and veterinarian Judith Heckel bottle-fed and hand-reared the cub after mother Rose’s milk dried up with a single birth.
• A July introduction was canceled due to a digestive disorder, and earlier restricted hind-leg mobility has recently improved.
• Zoo Landau plans a “Geparden-Spielstunde” for public viewing, and Heckel said Assama may remain at the zoo.
• The cub’s father, Claude, is 15 years old, and the zoo links Assama’s story to conservation of the Sudan cheetah’s dwindling population.