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What are your favorite fun facts about animals? (lemmy.ml)
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-Elephants can't jump.

-Starfish don't brains.

-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don't attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.

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[–] 39 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Cheetah’s went through a genetic bottleneck somewhere between ten and twelve thousand years ago. There may have been less than ten left at one point. Dating the Cheetah Genetic Bottleneck
My totally silly theory is that humans in fact where adopting kits at that time and help saved the species, and that’s why they’re so almost domesticated.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There is almost no genetic diversity among them. You can skin graft or transplant organs between any two cheetahs without fear of rejection.

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