{"id":472002,"date":"2026-03-12T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:10:11","slug":"cheetahs-mo-and-bolt-arrive-at-africa-alive-zoo-in-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472002\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheetahs Mo and Bolt arrive at Africa Alive zoo in Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The brothers, named Mo and Bolt, have moved to Africa Alive in Kessingland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pair, both seven years old, previously lived at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent and have relocated as part of the European cheetah breeding programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Cheetahs Mo and Bolt have arrived in Suffolk (Image: ZSEA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cheetahs are one of the most threatened big cat species, with wild populations continuing to fall due to habitat loss, human conflict and reduced genetic diversity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is hoped that they will bond with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25353148.africa-alive-wins-tripadvisor-travellers-choice-award\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Africa Alive&#8217;s<\/a> female cheetah, Duma.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>They were relocated as part of a European breeding programme (Image: ZSEA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/23921905.duma-cheetah-arrives-africa-alive-kessingland\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duma, now four years old, joined the zoo from France in 2023<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The expert animal care team at Africa Alive will help Mo and Bolt settle in over the next few weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>They will settle in over the next few weeks (Image: ZSEA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are thrilled at Mo and Bolt&#8217;s arrival and very hopeful that our Duma will happily pair off with one of them,&#8221; Zoe Nunn, animal manager at Africa Alive, said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;In the past, we have successfully bred a number of cheetahs, and it would be amazing to have cheetah cubs at the park again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brothers, named Mo and Bolt, have moved to Africa Alive in Kessingland. The pair, both seven years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-472002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}