NBC新闻:首只试管授精猎豹出生

Tonight at the Columbus zoo a scientific marvel with spots. Actually more like two little marvels to be exact. The world's first in vitro cheetah cub and then moments later the second, a twin. It's huge for cheetahs. Probably one of the biggest breakthrough that we've had. Their birth natural and caught on camera. But their conception straight out of the future in an effort to save a species. Today there are only around seven thousand cheetahs left in the wild where only five percent of cubs survive.

Poaching and a loss of hunting grounds have led to so few cheetahs that too many are too closely related. So now scientists are making new and very modern trees outside of the serengeti. The cubs biological mother Kabibi and their father Slash chosen for their bloodline but Kabibi is too old to carry so the baby-making happened in a petri dish. The embryo placed in three year old Izzy with plenty of baby cheetah raising years still left to give. All under the watchful eye of science happy to give these precious little cubs a hand.