After a feeding, cheetah keeper Gil Myers cleans a one-month-old female cheetah cub, that was delivered via a rare caesarean section, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at the National Zoo in Washington.
Two cheetah cubs have been transported to the Smithsonian's National Zoo to be raised by hand after a risky birth at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in northern Virginia.
Credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin