Shillong, April 7: Oban, a male Namibian cheetah that ran away from Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh and was seen in a village, was captured and brought back to the park on Thursday. The forest department officials had to rescue the cheetah from the Shivpuri district forest after five days had passed and he still showed no signs of returning to the national park.
One of the four cheetahs from Namibia reintroduced into the wild at Kuno National Park is named Oban. Along with Asha, a female cheetah, they were released into the wild. Thereafter, Elton and Freddie, two other male cheetahs, were successfully released.
However, on April 2, Oban strayed outside the park’s boundaries and was discovered in Jhar Baroda Village, Vijaypur, 20 kilometres from Kuno National Park. He was observed the following day in the village of Parwati Baroda consuming water from a river.
He spent some time on Tuesday inside the limits of the national park. Unfortunately, he arrived to the buffer zone close to the Nahad-Silpura region rather than the park. He then travelled to the Piparwas forest in the Pohri tehsil and stayed there for two days.
Oban is believed to have gone in search of a black deer.