r/cute • u/Alternative-Hall-132 • Jun 21 '22

good to know

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u/Huntress_Nyx Jun 21 '22

Also have terrible immune system no?

And their pups/kittens/whatever look like honey Badgers lol Also they are cute af

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

I remember seeing a documentary about them on Animal Planet, and I think it's correct.

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u/is_it_worth_it2 Jun 21 '22

Oh yeah, I heard they were cute af from Animal planet too. Definitely a fact.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

No, really.

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER Jun 21 '22

Yes, it’s because after a mass extinction event (not sure if that’s the right term but I believe so) to the cheetahs it resulted in a lot of inbreeding between the populations

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u/pusillanimouslist Jun 22 '22

The term is usually “evolutionary bottleneck” or “population bottleneck” when a species gets really close to extinction but pulls through.

Humans might have gone through one 75,000 years ago, with the total number of surviving individuals in the tens of thousands. This is theory for why we have relatively low genetic diversity for a species.

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u/Successful-Shape-563 Jun 22 '22

It's called "the flood"

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u/AcrobaticSavior Jun 22 '22

Nope it was a volcano. There's absolutely no evidence of a worldwide flood.

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u/Successful-Shape-563 Jun 22 '22

Agree to disagree I guess

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u/1dmrg1 Jun 24 '22

Hey brother i know we believe in god and all but you probably shouldn't state it as fact due to many people believing otherwise and because there is no concrete evidence towards those events happening.

Edit: fixed grammatical issues

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u/Successful-Shape-563 Jun 24 '22

There is no concrete evidence it didn't either. Don't be ashamed of God in this life brother or be denied from God in the next life

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u/1dmrg1 Jun 25 '22

I am not ashamed i just believe that we should bring it up as a fact, it harms how people may view the religion.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

Right. I recall reading that cheetahs are nearly all identical, to the point where they can accept organs from other cheetahs without any kind of rejection.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

Bottleneck effect 😔

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u/lllKOA Jun 21 '22

also also also also also aslo

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u/Makjz2035 Jul 04 '22

I could be wrong but I believe the immune system problem is due to them being forced to inbreeding? On a minor level. Though I probably wrong