Posted on 08/28/2019 6:40:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Three tiny balls of fur huddle together for warmth inside a cardboard box. The baby cheetahs are just a few weeks old, but they've had a traumatic start to life.
A smuggler was attempting to spirit the cubs out of Somaliland, a breakaway state from Somalia, when he was caught red-handed by the authorities. The cubs, who will soon be taken to a safehouse, are the lucky ones. Some 300 young cheetahs are trafficked out of Somaliland every year -- around the same number as the entire population of adult and adolescent cheetahs in unprotected areas in the Horn of Africa, according to the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). The trend is of "epidemic proportions," according to CCF, an organization devoted to saving cheetahs in the wild. At the current rates of trafficking, the cheetah population in the region could soon be wiped out.
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I used to drive one.
I found that the hard part was keeping up with the cheetah while on a walk.....
To start with, they’re nowhere near extinct. In Namibia, they are quite common and are hunted by European hunters. As a PH said, “the Americans have decided there aren’t any cheetahs, so they don’t allow them to be imported.”
I saw several in the space of 10 days. It’s always great to get your information about the wild areas of the world from someone who’s lived their entire life on concrete.
As a second thought, I do have an Arab acquaintance in the UAE who has a pet cheetah.
Neah.
Cheetahs have been domesticated since the days of the Pharaohs.
Strangely enough, it is adult cheetahs that make good pets; the young ones are unmanageable.
Maybe this will lead to breeding cheetahs, actually increasing their numbers and creating new breeds?
If owning an animal as a pet causes their extinction, then why are cats and dogs not extinct?
And I saw that one rhino 35 years ago.
“around the same number as the entire population of adult and adolescent cheetahs in unprotected areas in the Horn of Africa”
And infinitely more than the indigenous cheetah population in Iceland.
How many in the rest of Africa? I’d think the wasteland that is the horn has a sparse population of everything, relatively speaking.
Uhhh, yeah...
It occurs to me that the world would be better off if Somalia was eradicated.
If it wasn’t a slot car but the real thing, you were indeed fortunate. There were supposedly only 16 chasis made and maybe 33 bodies. Too bad GM didn’t spend on developing it more to give the Cobras a run. I recall there being some Cheetah body kits and I think I saw one on a freeway in SoCal sometime in the ‘60’s. It was going way too fast for me to get up close to take a better look.
A furious rhino attacked an animal keeper in her car at a German safari park, flipping it over three times.
This doesn’t make sense. If there’s a market in cheetahs, their continued existence is assured. There must be something more to the story. For example, it’s illegal for anybody to own, bred or sell cheetah. In this case, then the only way to get cheetahs is to pooch them. Legalize cheetahs and the problem goes away.
My Aunt Ethel was married to one.
Took THREE people at cnn to write this???......Sheesh. Must be a union shop.
Now THAT is a cat!
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