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The article mentions there are 16 cats, isn’t that far too few for a genetically healthy population?
by zeristor 7y ago
The article mentions there are 16 cats, isn’t that far too few for a genetically healthy population?
- soapdog 7y ago16 they know about. Giving how fast cats can multiply if unchecked, I expect the actual population to be larger.
- zeristor 7y agoConsidering they’re thought to arrived several thousand years ago, are they on the way out, or is this just from one town. Cheetahs had a genetic bottleneck of 11 individuals, severely constraining genetic diversity, which they may not naturally recover from.