Pride is the name of the first hand-reared cheetah to be successfully re-introduced into the wild and to breed there with a wild male. She was a product of illegal breeding and was brought to the Harnas Wildlife Foundation -- a foundation which looks after around 300 injured, abandoned or 'problem' animals and aims to re-introduce them back into the wild. There the correct procedure was to put her down, however the head of the foundation, Marieta van der Merwe, disobeyed her own protocol and raised Pride in secret. She began slowly rehabilitating Pride's natural behaviours with novel techniques like dragging bottles behind cars to induce hunting. Over the past two years she has been successfully re-introduced into the wild, even mating with a wild cheetah and giving birth to two healthy cubs! Bonne visits Pride and finds out how she has played a vital role in new cheetah research using Bio-logging science (BLS) along with video loggers to track cheetah movements and monitor their behaviours. Some interesting new discoveries are emerging about cheetah behaviour which have previously been a secret to science. Join us to find out!
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