cheetah of the wetlands nyt

Since North American cheetahs mostly eat a commercial feline diet based on horsemeat and soy, while the cheetahs living and breeding more successfully elsewhere are being fed whole carcasses, a group of researchers in Ohio decided to look at the zoo cheetah's food. From there he would fly to Iran, where he has tracked the rare Asian cheetah. Before he left Fairbanks, he said the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should remain untouched. “As a naturalist, it’s important from a scientific point of view to have an area that hasn’t been degraded, where all parts of the ecosystem are still there,” he said.