Paw-5! Meet 馃悊 cubs Maathai, Fossey, Murie, Leopold & Roosevelt. Thanks for voting to name them! 馃审馃挌
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WASHINGTON 鈥� The votes have been tallied, and five of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute鈥檚 10 new cheetah cubs officially have new names.
CBS News, which was helping with the during Earth Day weekend, announced Saturday morning that the females鈥� names will be Maathai, Fossey and Murie. The two male cubs will be named Leopold and Roosevelt.
(The National Zoo confirmed the new names Monday morning.)
The names were selected from a short list that honored groundbreaking conservationists: Wangari Maathai, Dian Fossey, Margaret Murie, Aldo Leopold and Teddy Roosevelt.
The cubs came from two different mothers and at the聽Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
