Seven cheetah cubs filmed exploring for first time
Cheetah cubs have been seen for the first time testing out their famous speed skills by zooming up and down their paddock, and play-fighting with their siblings.
The litters of four cubs born to mum Amira and three to Zara spent their first seven weeks in a "behind-the-scenes paddock" at Whipsnade Zoo, but can now venture out and into the view of visitors.
The Bedfordshire site said the cubs were "vitally important" for their endangered sub-species, the northern cheetah, with only 6,500 remaining.
The cubs will be named by the Zoological Society of London's conservationists, who are working in Zambia to release cheetahs into the wild for the first time in almost three decades.
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