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Fun fact about cheetahs is that they’re so interrelated that any cheetah can accept a skin graft from nearly any other cheetah. They’re so similar that their im
by bglazer 3y ago
Fun fact about cheetahs is that they’re so interrelated that any cheetah can accept a skin graft from nearly any other cheetah. They’re so similar that their immune system can’t recognize that the transplanted skin is from a different individual
- jacquesm 3y agoIrish Wolfhounds have been brought back through outbreeding, I wonder if the same would hold for them.
- sidewndr46 3y agoGot a source for that? It sounds fascinating
- bglazer 3y agoYep, here’s the 1985 study where they tested reciprocal skin grafts across 14 unrelated cheetahs. Genetics research before easy sequencing was super wild. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2983425/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2983425/
- taneq 3y agoIf that's true then maybe we could graft whole cheetahs together to form Cheetah Voltron.
- andrewflnr 3y agoMaybe you can but please consider, first, whether you should.
- taneq 3y agoOh, good point. I should reconsider my totally serious and not at all facetious plans to build a giant humanoid robot out of savannah cats.
- dalbasal 3y agothank you.
- andrewflnr 3y agoThat's all I want to hear. It would be a shame if something went horribly wrong with your cheetah-mech theme park.
- taneq 3y agoYeah but... what IF it all went right? :D
- jvm___ 3y agoHow fast could a 6 legged cheetah run?
- taneq 3y agoI'm assuming not at all unless you were really, really good at building Cheetah-based abominations.