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The Chita Cub Mortality Rate in the Serengeti
The Chita cub mortality rate is reportedly very high and the government has said the survival rate is only 10%. Now I don't know where this 10% rate comes from. Is it applicable to a place like KONO or is this 10% specific to certain kinds of animal, maybe a predator's rich environment? Like how does this 10% apply to this KONO kind of a setting? Yeah, I think this is the key question. There are several information on this and it's certainly not applicable to entire Africa. But what is known is that in the Serengeti National Park there, the survival rate or raising success of CAPS is quite small.
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