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Iran, US Unite in Effort to Save Cheetah
Iran and the United States are working together to stop the rare Asiatic cheetah from dying out. These big spotted cats once lived in the deserts and mountains of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Iran.
The cheetahs lived by eating antelopes, but they also ate deer, rabbits, and were even tamed and used to hunt gazelles. Over the years, humans moved into the places where the cheetah lived and hunted. People cleared the land to grow crops, which forced out the animals the cheetahs needed to eat. People also hunted the cheetahs. Now only 50 or 60 Asiatic cheetahs remain alive in the wild. They all live in Iran. The Iranian Department of the Environment is working with scientists and environmental groups from the United States and the United Kingdom to protect the last of the Asiatic cheetahs.
They're studying the way the cheetahs live so that they can try to help them survive. They're planning to protect the habitat, and stopping hunters from shooting the remaining cheetahs.
Animal lovers everywhere are glad to see Iran and the US working together, because the governments of the two countries often disagree. The US accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons, and helping insurgents in the Iraq war. But both countries agree that the world is a better place with the Asiatic cheetah.
I'm Adelbert and that's what happened in science this week!
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