Asiatic Cheetah Cub Dies of Injuries From Road Crash

Several days of intensive veterinary treatment failed to save a male Asiatic Cheetah cub that suffered a severe spinal injury in a road accident last week.
"Despite all efforts by the veterinary team at Pardisan Park, the seven-month-old cheetah cub injured last week in a road accident in Abbasabad protected area near Shahrud, Semnan Province, died last night," the Department of Environment's website reported on Wednesday.  
The impact had severed his spinal cord at the fifth lumbar vertebra, the report said.