tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348728589329576621.post312946781707908123..comments2023-12-20T13:55:42.983+00:00Comments on CFZ: Daily News: Cheetah to be reintroduced into IndiaCorinnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02510292249777697226noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348728589329576621.post-79634684098647971182011-09-29T13:43:35.600+01:002011-09-29T13:43:35.600+01:00Several years ago, I was told that Howard Buffett,...Several years ago, I was told that Howard Buffett, Warren's son, is using his money to conserve cheetah in Africa, and that he had been wanting to restore them to India.<br /><br />My knowledge of Indian cheetahs at the time came from a Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." The murderer keeps an Indian cheetah on the property, and he uses some sort of poisonous Indian snake as his murder weapon-- "the speckled band." When I looked into the Asian cheetah population, I was surprise that the only surviving population is in Iran.<br /><br />What always amazed me about Indian cheetahs is how many nobles, both Indian and British, kept them for coursing hounds. There are many paintings and photographs of the "hunting leopards," as they were called. I even came across a video of cheetahs being used to course blackbuck.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NevenDIp95ARetrievermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780519136583108632noreply@blogger.com