The spots are fading - Cheetahs

[dArKeR]

Stop at the robot, look at the car alongside you and accelerate as fast as you can to the next robot. If you were driving a Ferrari F1, you could get from 0 to 100km/h in about four seconds. But there is a sleek, spotted creature that could still streak past you. Cheetahs can achieve 100km/h in less than three seconds.

Even though the cheetah is the fastest land mammal, however, it is unable to outrun humans in the race for survival. In our need to dominate the land, humans seem determined to ensure that the cheetah will soon be little more than a memory.

“The spots are fading” as there are less than 1 000 cheetah left in South Africa. Of those, less than 250 are free-roaming cheetahs. In fact, there are fewer cheetahs in South Africa than spots on a single animal.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?o=43888

You'd have to have your head up your Asscroft's arse or you're a Repuke or a George aWol Bush if you couldn't figure out that all wil animal life on Earth will be dead in the near future.

[NNadir]

1. Because of a near extinction event in the past, Cheetahs have very

low genetic variability already.

This is tragic.

[Codeblue]

2. I've always been a really fast runner

so a Cheetah has been my favorite animal since I can remember. I always thought of CHeetahs as a wild representation of myself. When I hear about the decline in the cheetah population, and how close to extinction they really are...it really makes me feel like crying. Cheetahs are beautiful creatures, graceful and oh so cute. I can't imagine a world without Cheetahs. It makes me incredibly sad to think about losingsuch a wonderful animal forever.