Cheetah Directory

[Acinonyx sp.]

Name: Honey aka Misha
Date of Birth:1998
Gender: Female
Location: Masai Mara
Status: Deceased (2007)
Subspecies: A.j.jubatus

The Mara Meru Cheetah project named this cheetah Honey. Photographer Federico named her Honey.  Honey gave birth to 3 cubs in around 2002. She and her cubs got infected with mange. After treatment from the Masai mara vet, due to unknown reasons she forgot her cubs and abandoned them. Later she was seen with one cub in 2005 who was named Toto. Toto went missing overnight after a storm and was not found again. She gave birth to 4 cubs, lost one of them. The 3 surviving cubs were known as M1, M2 and M3; all males. Honey died in 2007 when a vet attempted to tranquilize her inorder to treat her injured cub, the dart instead of hitting a muscle pierced her stomach which was fatal. After honey's death her 3 cubs formed a coalition, they were called the Honey Boys after this.

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