“This is Isabelle’s first incident and as per the Delaware County General Health District, she will be placed in a 30-day quarantine just to ensure that she does not show signs of illness,” the zoo said. The zoo did not elaborate on the staffer’s injuries.īecause the injured keeper works with giraffes and other hoofstock, the zoo said it believes “that, due to normal animal behavior, the scent of these other animals on the keeper triggered a natural instinct in Isabelle, who reacted.” The keeper was invited to move closer, and when the keeper approached, “Isabelle crouched down and lunged,” the zoo said. Isabelle was harnessed per normal protocol, the zoo said.Īs a keeper began walking toward Isabelle and the two employees, the cheetah “was calm and purring,” the zoo said in a statement. while two employees were walking the 4-year-old cheetah, named Isabelle, for her daily exercise, the zoo said. The incident took place just before 10 a.m. (COLUMBUS, Ohio) - An employee at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has been released from the hospital after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, the zoo said. Yesterday, for the first time, Ruth and the cubs were rolling around and playing.Zocha_K/iStock By EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News Reh and Ro seem to prefer Reese so far, but that might be because Reese has been there longer, Rapp said. The cubs and the puppies are friendly to one another without quite being buddies yet. “Just because they are being raised with dogs doesn’t mean they will act like dogs.” “Like it or not, they are wild animals,” Rapp said. Reh climbed on top of a Dispatch photographer’s head while the photographer was on the ground, trying to snap Ro. They’ve been scratching holes in the office’s couch. There’s no mistaking what they will become. They might grow larger than 100 pounds, but it’s hard to see that now. Reese and Ruth are still tumbling, floppy puppies, not quite secure in their bodies. Yesterday at the zoo, they didn’t act like it. They are two days older than Ro and Reh, who are 10 weeks old. A couple of weeks after the cheetahs arrived in Columbus, Reese the puppy did, too. The zoo found a farm in Alabama that raised the dogs. If Ro went on a trip, his dog friend would come with him.Īnd besides, Rapp said, it would allow the zoo to tell the story of cheetah conservation and Anatolian Shepherds wherever they went. It was thought that if the Columbus Zoo paired Anatolian Shepherds with the baby cheetahs, Ro and Reh would never be alone. Rapp said zoos sometimes raise cheetahs alongside dogs, because cheetahs can be shy and nervous, and dogs help them feel more secure. By keeping the cheetahs away, the dogs save the cheetahs’ lives. To protect them, the international Cheetah Conservation Fund has worked with the farmers to place Anatolian Shepherd dogs to guard the livestock. She needed to find them some friends.Ĭheetahs are a threatened species, but in Namibia, farmers kill them for attacking livestock. Females like being by themselves, but Ro and Reh would always get lonely without each other, she said. She has raised cheetahs and knows about their personalities. Suzi Rapp, the zoo’s director of promotions and animal encounters, saw that right away. Ro and Reh, born at the Cincinnati Zoo, hate to be apart, though. The brothers would live together, but one might go with Jack Hanna for an appearance on a national television show, while the other might visit local schools. The zoo named them Ro and Reh (pronounced Ray), and decided that they could be used best not for display but for education and to promote cheetah conservation. Two baby cheetahs, brothers, came to the Columbus Zoo about six weeks ago.
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