The Cheetah Problem!
This Chart shows the predicted decline in cheetah population throughout the world. Currently, there are roughly 10,000 cheetahs in Africa and Asia. The likely extinction of the viable cheetah population is sometime around 2015-2025. Viability is the key word. A population becomes genetically non viable when the population drops to below 12,000. It would seem likely that the species will survive but only in limited surroundings, provided captive breeding goes well. The problem of the endangered cheetah is quite complex but the underlying problem is really about human population growth and expansion.
Sources:
- http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/endangered-cheetah
- http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/08/doc/E-22.pdf
- http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Namibia
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1. List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population.
2. How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature?
3. How did the ice age affect the cheetah population?
4. How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah population?
5. Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators.
6. What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly?
7. Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population.
8. What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct?
9. Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population?
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1. List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population.
Loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development.
2. How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature?
They both are hunted
3. How did the ice age affect the cheetah population?
The ice age took out all the cheetahs in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
4. How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah population?
The present day population of cheetah are derived from inbreeding by those very few surviving populations and closely related animals.
5. Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators.
A small head, high set eyes, and tiny ears combine with a slender, long legged body. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail.
6. What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly?
Humans could potentially kill of all of the cheetahs very quickly by hunting and poaching them, reducing their habitat, or competing for farmland.
7. Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population.
Hunting, reducing habitats, and competing for farmland.
8. What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct?
Farmers can call if they have a problem with cheetahs and some cheetahs are moved to a non-hunting area.
9. Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population?
This doesn’t work because they inbreeding which does not create many genetic differences.
1.List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population.
1;it is the smallest cat of theig cats.
2;comercial farming
3;loss of habitate
2How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature?
they are small like them
3How did the ice age affect the cheetah population?
the ice age kicked them out of their habitat.
4.How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah population?
it made cheetahs become closer in look.
5.Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators.
the spots of the cheetahs fur makes them lend in.
6.What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly?
The human threat,hunting and poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
7.Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population.hunting, reduced habitate, compettion with farmers.
8.What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct?
they are not letting farmers kill them from trying to eat their animals.
9.Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population?
it is hard to get them back into the wild. They werent breeding very much.
1) Three main issues that endanger the cheetah are loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development have all put the cheetah in danger.
2)Wolves were starting to go extinct from England and almost completely from North America; the cheetah is continuing along this path for the same reasons.
3)The ice age killed most of the cheeta's.
4)The cheetahs that survived are a part of the cheetas that are still alive today. The Populations of cheeta's today were breeded from the cheetah survivors
5) The cheetah has a course coat with round black spots a small head, and eyes on the top of his head, tiny ears and long legs. It also has a flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail.
6) A feline disease could wipe out the entire population very quickly.
7)Humans are a threat to the cheetah because of hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8)Farmers now call the CCF when they realize they have a cheetah problem in order to get it removed from their farm without calling for its killing.
They have also contacted the Controlled Taste Aversion program to discourage predators from attacking livestock.
9) Because most of the male cheetah sperm is non functional.
and because its hard to get them back in the wild.
1. Loss of Habitat , Commercial Farming and Development.
2. They have both been eradicated from there habitat.
3.With the onset of the last Ice Age, approximately 10,000 years ago, all the cheetah in North America, Europe, and most of those in Asia and Africa perished.
4.The present day population of cheetah are derived from inbreeding by those very few surviving populations and closely related animals. This created the genetic "bottleneck".
5.The cheetah has a course coat with round black spots, and distinctive "tear" stripes down the sides of its nose. A small head, high set eyes, and tiny ears combine with a slender, long legged body. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail make the cheetah the swiftest hunter in Africa and the fastest land mammal. The cheetah is capable of speed up to 72 mph (114 km/h) and can maintain this speed over an average prey chase of 3.5 miles. At full speed the cheetah can cover a distance of 25 ft (8 m) in a single stride.
6. If a feline diesease spread throughut the cheetah population it would wipe out completely.
7. Hunting/Poaching , reduced habbitat and competing with farmers.
8. They allow humans to hunt in certain areas.
9. Because they will not be used to cathcing there own food in the wild and will not survive on there own.
1. The 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population is loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development.
2. They are similar because wolves were successfully eradicated from England and almost completely from North America; the cheetah is continuing along this path for the same reasons.
3. It affected the population because they all perished.
4. It created a genetic "bottleneck" by the present day population of cheetah are derived from inbreeding by those very few surviving populations and closely related animals.
5. They make them exceptional predators because it needed back in the day specfic traits in order for it successfully compete with other land predators.
6. Should a feline disease spread among the among the cheetah, it could wipe out the whole population.
7. 3 ways humans have done so are by hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8. The conservation efforts are the CCF has been working closely with the Namibian government, farmers, and school system to spread the importance of habitat conservation.
9. It is not working well because the genetic "bottleneck" of the cheetah has resulted in colonies with limited genetic material and massive inbreeding in confined regions. Also, most of the male cheetah sperm is non-functional.
Ryan Frondorf
1.List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population.
The three main issues that endanger the Cheetah are loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development.
2.How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature?
They are both similar in nature because they are both dying off for the same reason. That reason is that the cheetah to farmers in Africa is how the wolf is to ranchers in North America.
3.How did the ice age affect the cheetah population?
The Ice Age perished and wiped out all of the cheetah population in North America, Europe, and most of them in Asia and Africa. Only a slim number survived in Asia and Africa. The cheetahs alive today are the descendents of those who were able to survive the Ice Age which nearly killed off the great creature.
4.How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah population?
It made the cheetah have to breed with closely related family and creatures which made the bottleneck. The cheetah family is now closer than identical twins. They have less than one percent of diversity in their DND which is making it very difficult for them to reproduce.
5.Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators.
The cheetah’s physical features are unbelievable. It was created a very long time ago and needed certain characteristics to compete and strive. Some of these characteristics are its round black spotted coat, its high set of eyes and ears, flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail make the cheetah the swiftest hunter in Africa and the fastest land mammal. The cheetah can reached speeds up to 72mph and maintain this speed for 3.5 miles.
6.What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly?
The factor that could potentially kill of the cheetah very quickly is the genetic problem. If a feline disease spread among the cheetah, it could possibly wipe out the entire population.
7.Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population.
3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population are from hunting, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8.What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct?
The conservation efforts are the CCF has been working closely with the Namibian government, farmers, and school system to spread the importance of habitat conservation.
9.Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population?
It is not working well because the genetic "bottleneck" of the cheetah has resulted in colonies with limited genetic material and massive inbreeding in confined regions. Also, most of the male cheetah sperm is non-functional.
Jonathon Deifel Core D
Allison Burst
1. Three main issues that endanger the cheetah population are loss of habitat, commercial farming, development and hunting have endangered the cheetah population.
2. They are both being eradicated and their population in dying off as a moderate rate.
3. It killed all of the cheetahs in Europe, North America and most f them perished in Asia and Africa.
4. All of the cheetahs are more closely related than identical twins, because of the “bottleneck” gene.
5. They have a slender, long legged body. It also has a flexible spin, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws and a stabilizing tail making it the fastest land mammal.
6. It could wipe out there population if a feline disease is spread.
7. 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population is 1) hunting and poaching, 2) reducing habitat, 3) competition with farmers.
8. They help to educate people on the importance of cheetah conservation, and help rebuild habitats for the cheetahs.
9. The “bottleneck” gene keeps reappearing in the genetic code making the cheetahs very, very, very similar. Also most of the male cheetah sperm is non-functional making breeding difficult.
1.The reasons are loss of habitat and commercial farming and devolement.
2. The cheetah and wolf are similar because they were both almost killed of at one time.
3. It was effected the ice age because they were in North America at the time when the Ice age came.
4. the ice age killed alot of Cheetahs so they had to start inbreding so they could keep their population going.
5. Physical things like long legs to go fast, big lungs for stamina and camoflauge for hunting.
6. a feline disease spread among the che9 the cheetahs wont spread in capacity. etah could wipe them all out
7.they kill cheetahs to protect their livestock. they have destroy the enviroment.
8. They have made people aware of the population of cheetahs and dealed with farmers so they would not kill Cheetahs
Katelyn Dole Core D
1. 3 main reasons the cheetah population is endanger are:
(1.Loss of habitat
(2.Commercial farming
(3.And development
2. The cheetah and wolf are similar in nature are people hunt them for their pelts.
3. All the cheetah in North America, Europe, and most of those in Asia and Africa perished. From those of the cheetah that survived are descended the current stock of cheetah.
4. The major climate effect that created a “bottleneck” in the cheetah population is the present day populations of the cheetah are derived to inbreeding by those very few surviving populations and closely related animals.
5. The cheetah is very fast up to 80 miles. It has a special heart which will help it run faster and not lose its breath after running for a long time.
6. A feline disease could kill the entire population of the cheetahs.
7. 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population is hunting/poaching, reducing habitats, and competing with farmers for farmland.
8. The efforts that the CCF and CAT are trying to do to prevent the cheetahs from going extinct are they showed the farmers how they can call them if they have a cheetah problem instead of them killing it.
9. Captive breeding isn’t working well with the cheetahs because they are not breeding enough and it is hard to get them back into the wild.
Katelyn Evans core D
1 There habitats are being converted into farm land and cattle ranches, 2 They are over hunted
2 both were successfully eradicated
3 It basically wiped out most of the population and those one that survived kept to population hanging on.
4 It led to a genetic diversity problem now most cheetahs are closely related so they don’t have genetic diversity
5 With flexible backs and slender body shape they are able to run faster than any other animal making them a fantastic hunter.
6 If a feline disease is spread
7Humans are hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8 They are trying to rebuild their habitats and educating people on cheetahs
9 They aren’t getting enough diversity making them very similar to others causing the male sperms Non- functional.
1. Three main issues that endanger the cheetah population is one, they are not protected in every place they are only in some places. This means people can kill them. Also the second reason all their lands where they live is being converted into farm land and cattle ranches. The third reason is people hunt them and kill them for cloths and their fur and patterns.
2. The cheetah and wolf are similar in nature by they are from the same place and they hunt and migrated like the wolves to the same place.
3. The Ice Age affected the cheetah population by, most of the cheetahs died during the ice age.
4. The major climate change genetic bottleneck for the current cheetah population by, all the cheetahs are more closely related then identical twins with less than 1 percent of genetic diversity.
5. It has a flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail.
6.Human hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
7. Hunting or poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8. The conservation efforts are the CCF has been working closely with the Namibian government, farmers, and school system to spread the importance of habitat conservation.
9.The Cheetahs do not breed as fast as other animals.
1. Loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development are the main causes
2. Wolves were successfully eradicated from England and almost completely from North America; the cheetah is continuing along this path for the same reasons
3. the cheetah in North America, Europe, and most of those in Asia and Africa perished in the last ice age
4. all living cheetah today are more closely related than identical twins
5. A small head, high set eyes, and tiny ears combine with a slender, long legged body. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail
6. a feline disease spread among the cheetah couls wipe them all out
7. hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8. Farmers can call if they have a problem with cheetahs and some cheetahs are moved to a non-hunting area.
9. the cheetahs can not bread well enough to surive in the wild
9(breeding is not working in captivity.
1. List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population. Loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development are three main issues that endanger the cheetah.
2. How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature? Cheetah and wolf both are being killed off for the same reason; to protect farmland.
3. How did the ice age affect the cheetah population? The Ice Age wiped out the population of cheetah in North America, Europe, and almost all of them in Asia and Africa.
4. How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah population? All living cheetah today are more closely related than identical twins with less than a 1% genetic diversity as oppose to humans who have a 37% genetic diversity.
5. Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators. The cheetah’s physical features make it unstoppable to native animals in Africa. The cheetah has a course coat with round black spots, and tear stripes down the sides of its nose. Cheetahs have small heads, high set eyes, and tiny ears. They also have a long body with long legs for running on the flat Africa plains. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail make the cheetah not have many problems with their bodies. A larger heart pumps more blood through the body and an oversized live gets rid of toxins quickly.
6. What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly? Humans are the biggest factor that could potentially kill of all the cheetahs.
7. Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population. Humans have reduced the cheetah population by hunting them, reducing their habitat, and by competition with farmers.
8. What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct? CCF is trying to get people native to the area to understand what is going on with the cheetah population by telling people to call the CCF if there’s a cheetah problem, so that it can be removed properly. The CAT is trying to “de-humanize” the land by demolishing houses, fences, and roads in an attempt to recreate a new habitat.
9. Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population? Male cheetah sperm is usually non-functional. Most cheetahs born in captivity are normally unsuccessful.
Adam Schraffenberger
1. The three main issues that endanger the cheetah population is the loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development.
2. The cheetah and wolf are similar in nature because that are both hunted for their fur.
3. The ice age affected the cheetah population by wiping out almost of of the cheetah in North America, Europe, and most of those in Asia and Africa.
4. This major cilmate change created a genetic "bottleneck" in the current cheetah population by making cheetahs look closely alike.
5. The physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators with a small head, high set eyes, and tiny ears combine with a slender, long legged body. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and stabilizing tail make the cheetah the swiftest hunter in Africa and the fastest land mammal.
6. A factor that could potantially kill off all the cheetahs quickly would be if a disease is spread, this would wipe out their entire population.
7. Three ways humans have reduced the cheetah population is by hunting, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers for farmland.
8. Efforts by the CCF and CAT are doing to keep the cheetah population from coming extinct by having farmers call to get the cheetah removed instead of killing it.
9. Captive breeding is not working well with the cheetah population becuase cheetahs are not breeding enough, and it's hard to get them back into the wild. Inbreeding doesn't work, it makes to many genetic differences.
Tyler Rupe
1.The 1st reason of their extinction is the humans expanding into their land. The 2nd reason is that they are being hunted as food for most people. The 3rd reason is that they are being shot when they go into a cattle ranch to kill a cow or horse for food.
2.They are both going extinct in a similar way and there are few left.
3.The ice age affected them by killing most of the cheetahs.
4.They have mated with the cheetah’s that are not the same as them.
5.There new features are able to make them blend in their surroundings.
6.Other animals would kill off their cubs, which will make the population die even quicker.
7.The 1st way is that we have hunted them as a way of reducing threat.
8.Farmers can call if they have a problem with a cheetah so it doesn't have to get killed.
9.This doesn’t work because they inbreeding which does not create many genetic differences.
1. One of the issues is the commercial of farming. Another reason is the development. The last issue is the loss of their habitat.
2. They are both similar, because they both came near extinction. They are also a threat to the farmers and humans.
3. The last ice age cause almost all of the cheetah population to be lost in North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
4. The way that the climate event created the “bottleneck” is that with the present day population. All the cheetahs are more closely related then identical twins with less than 1 percent of genetic diversity.
5. The leopard spots on the cheetah help them to camouflage
6. The factor that could kill Cheetahs is the people. We use them as pouches which kill many Cheetahs.
7. Hunting and poaching them, reducing their habitat, or competing for farmland.
8. The CCF has been working with the Namibian government, and farmers to spread the importance of habitat conservation.
9. Male cheetah sperm is usually non-functional. Most cheetahs born in captivity are normally unsuccessful.
Michael Frederick & Devin Moore
1. Loss of habitat, commercial farming, and development are the three main issues that is causing the endangerment of cheetahs.
2. The cheetah and wolf both hunt their prey’s down for food.
3. When the ice age occurred all the cheetah’s in North America, Europe, and most of those in Asia and Africa died.
4. The climate change made the diversity between the cheetahs little to none and they all looked a lot the same if not identical.
5. The cheetah has a rough coat with round black spots, stripes down the sides of its nose. A small head, high set eyes, and tiny ears. They also have a long legged body. The cheetah's flexible spine, oversized liver, enlarged heart, muscular body, non-retractable claws, and firm tail make the cheetah the quickest hunter in Africa and the fastest land mammal.
6. The feline disease could wipe out the entire population.
7. 3 ways humans have hurt the population are by hunting/poaching, reduced habitat, and competition with farmers.
8. The CCF has been working with the Namibian government, farmers, and school system to spread the importance of habitat conservation
9. It is not working well because the genetic "bottleneck" of the cheetah has resulted in colonies with limited genetic material and massive inbreeding in confined regions. Also, most of the male cheetah sperm is non-functional.
Lauren Brown Core: C
1. The 3 main issues that the cheetah was endangered is loss of habbitat,commercial farming and dovelopment.
2.one reason the cheetah and the wolf are similar is that 3.The ice age affected the cheetahs by it killing of all in North America,Europe and Asia.
4.It made a phisical change to the cheetah.
5.Phisical features:non retractable clawsand oversized heart and liver
1. List the 3 main issues that endanger the cheetah population.
- Loss of habitat ;many lands that compose the cheetah's habitat range are being converted into farmlands and cattle ranches
- Commercial Farming
- Development
2. How are the cheetah and wolf similar in nature?
The way the cheetah is viewed by African farmers is the same way ranchers view Wolfs in North America. If the cheetah is continually hunted at its current rate it will be extinct in the next decade, The Wolfs were successfully eradicated from north America and the cheetah is fallowing down the same path.
3. How did the ice age affect the cheetah population?
It took the cheetahs away from their homes and their origin.
4. How did this major climate event create a genetic “bottleneck” for the current cheetah
population?
The cheetahs left their homes and had to migrate.
5. Explain how the physical features of cheetahs make them exceptional predators.
Their tail gives them balance in their legs to make them run faster.
6. What factor could potentially kill off all the cheetahs very quickly?
If people started hunting them they would die off very quickly because there is not very many cheetahs left.
7. Describe 3 ways humans have reduced the cheetah population.
- They kill them for fur and other resources
- They take away their habitats and homes to build farms.
- The humans took away their food resources.
8. What conservation efforts by the CCF and CAT are underway to keep the cheetah population from becoming extinct?
The CCF and CAT are breeding the cheetahs and making more and more o try and increase the population and are bringing in the cheetahs from Africa to conserve them.
9. Why is captive breeding not working well with the cheetah population?
The breeding isn’t working because once you breed a diseased cheetah it carries on that disease to all the babies and those babies give it to theirs so more than half the cheetah population carries a genetic disease.
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