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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - U.S. troops flew two endangered cheetah cubs to the Ethiopian capital Tuesday after instigating their rescue from a remote village where a restaurant owner had held them captive and abused them.
The male and female cubs — whom the soldiers named Scout and Patch — were released on the grounds of the Ethiopian president's official residence after their 680-mile journey from the eastern hamlet of Gode.
"This is the first kind of rescue of animals, let alone cheetahs, that we have done," said Sgt. Leah Cobble, 26, of Washington, as she cuddled the two purring cubs on the runway of Bole International Airport before handing them to government veterinarian Fekadu Shiferaw.
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