Watch Five New Cheetah Cubs on the Cheetah Club Cam

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

A litter of five cheetah cubs were born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute on October 5, which makes them seven days old now. That means they should have their eyes open! Their mother is five-year-old Zura, who herself was born at the institute. So was her mother and grandmother, who all live there still. Their father is Flash, a genetically important sire who has already fathered cubs through the Cheetah Species Survival Plan, and is carefully matched with mates for cheetah conse