Can't wait to see perspectives on this one. I looked into this years ago and remember finding the number to be around 150-300 if you centrally plan reproduction

Can't wait to see perspectives on this one. I looked into this years ago and remember finding the number to be around 150-300 if you centrally plan reproduction (and no, you don't want an unequal gender distribution). Also that cheetahs experienced a population bottleneck of this magnitude and so we have some data on what it looks like. Take that with a grain of salt, memory and amateur research are finicky.