For decades, some people have kept big cats like cheetahs and panthers as exotic pets, attempting to domesticate them. It’s believed that around 20,000 of these big cats remain in captivity in the US, ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use them.