Kuno Cheetah KJP21 Delivers Five Cubs, India Tally Reaches 60

The correct answer is five. The Environment Ministry announced that KJP21, a female cheetah aged 32 months and herself born on Indian soil, delivered a litter of five healthy cubs at Kuno National Park. With these five newborns the number of cheetahs in India rose to 60, of which 41 were born in the country. Option A, three, is wrong because no litter of that size was reported in this birth; the figure is a plausible distractor since cheetah litters often range from two to four cubs in the wild. Option B, four, is likewise incorrect for the same reason and does not match the count given for KJP21. Option D, six, overstates the litter and is not supported by the announcement. Only the figure five is consistent with the national tally moving to 60 cheetahs on the day of the announcement.

The correct answer is Mukhi and KGP12. The Union Environment Minister stated that KJP21 is the third female cheetah born in India to have given birth, and that she follows Mukhi and KGP12 in that line. This detail matters because an India-born female breeding successfully shows the reintroduced population reproducing on its own rather than depending on animals flown in from Africa. Option B names two cheetahs that were not cited as the earlier India-born mothers in this announcement, so it cannot be correct. Option C is similarly unsupported and functions only as a distractor built from cheetah names an aspirant may recall from earlier news. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as the announcement credits only Mukhi and KGP12 as the two India-born females that bred before KJP21. Candidates should fix the sequence Mukhi, KGP12 and then KJP21 in memory.

The correct answer is Botswana. The father of the litter is a male cheetah of Botswanan origin, which is why the Environment Ministry described the five cubs as the beginning of the Botswanan lineage in India and as an addition to the genetic diversity of the growing population. Option A, Namibia, is an attractive distractor because the first batch of cheetahs for the reintroduction effort came from that country, but the paternity in this particular litter was not Namibian. Option B, South Africa, is wrong for the same reason; animals from there were part of earlier consignments, yet the new bloodline announced here is specifically Botswanan. Option D, Kenya, is incorrect because it has not figured as a source country in this programme. A wider gene pool is valuable for a small founder population, so the Botswanan paternity is treated as a milestone in its own right.