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November 06, 2007
Cheetah Orphans
This Sunday, cuddly cubs grow into big cats with an unlikely surrogate mother.
Film Charts Four-Year Emotional Rollercoaster As Acclaimed Filmmaker Raises Cuddly Cubs Into Big Cats, Preparing Them To Return To The Wild
At just four weeks old, cheetah cubs Toki and Sambu were orphaned when a lion killed their mother. Shortly after, Simon King, who has filmed wild cheetahs for 20 years, became their new parent at the 50,000-acre Lewa wildlife conservancy in northern Kenya. From bottle-feeding to teaching them how to hunt as their mother would have, King hand-reared the brothers and became deeply attached to them in the process. Toki and Sambu's life under King's care, by turns idyllic and tragic, and unfolding amid the stunning vistas of the Kenya savannah, is shown when The Cheetah Orphans premieres Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 8 p.m.
Posted by sue at November 6, 2007 08:42 AM