Today's biologists tend to disagree; especially in the case of the cheetah. They say there's not ENOUGH 'diversity' in the cute cat's gene pool.
(This really upsets the Noah 'myth' doesn't it?)
I've read that cheetahs are all so genetically close that they're almost clones. The theory is that the cheetah population once fell to maybe one pregnant female due to a drought or some sort of natural disaster.
So, cheetahs are pretty inbred. Their genetic pool is incredibly shallow.
Hmmm... maybe the Noah thingy wasn't a Myth at all, but instead was a Metaphor.. as was much metaphorical historical accounts since in the beginning nothing was written down. Its was all a verbal and remembered rote as stories buy the Rabbis.. Boys were originally tested at thirteen to see how much of the Torah they remembered by heart..
Even now Yiddish is given to metaphor, simile and dualistic stories.. As was Genesis Chap one by the way(metaphor).. and probably chaps two and three too.. I like metaphor but talking and writing that way did drive Nitche crazy as a moonbat..
Jesus pretty much used visual word pictures(metaphor) as a medium of conversation too.. Cool way to talk I think.. Humans ain't too smart.. You tell em "its raining cats and dogs", and many of them will run to the window to look for the rain of animals, others however, "get it"....
HUMANS... (Eddie Murphy laugh)..