RE: Kingdom Animalia #2 - The Cheetah

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Kingdom Animalia #2 - The Cheetah

in animals •  7 years ago 

Although I see what you are saying I still don’t agree. Smaller populations of animals are at huge risk of diseases that will wipe them out. The cheetah has had a extreme reduction in genetic diversity which is called a “bottleneck” that sadly has caused a reduction in sperm quality, focal palatine erosion and they are high susceptibile to the same highly infectious diseases. Sadly, the more we increase our population, habitat fragmentation occurs thus increasing inbreeding, leading to a further loss in genetic diversity. These factors sadly do contribute to high risk of infectious diseases wiping out the population.

Always happy to help out I enjoy your work :)

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Now I understand your view, quite a valid argument made, and now am like "yeah!!, she really do know these guys!! :) ".
Hope to catch you someday in the community chat, that will be an ocean of knowledge. Thanks once more, How is Basil?, send my regards :)

Basil is great! Will try and do an update on him soon. You are welcome, glad to of helped :)