By Ed Chatterton

Two of the world’s rarest big cats have arrived at Chester Zoo as part of a conservation program to help save their endangered species from extinction.

Northeast African cheetah brothers, Kendi and Tafari, have traveled 100 miles from Yorkshire Wildlife Park to Cheshire as part of a specialist breeding initiative.

But it wasn’t the smoothest of arrivals with comical footage showing one of the clumsy cheetahs taking a tumble from a tree as he struggled to explore his new surroundings on Friday, Oct. 31.

It is hoped the one-year-old pair will later be able to impress genetically matched females and breed to increase the numbers of “safety net” populations in zoos.

Conservationists are hailing their “special arrival” as an “important step” towards ensuring the contin

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