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Originally posted by lurkette
Cheetahs are still around but for how long? By "short-term" survival I mean centuries, by "long-term" survival I mean more-or-less permanent population stability. Cheetahs and many other endangered animals have only been endangered for the last hundred years or less, and without human intervention would have been extinct long ago. And we have yet to see if they do in fact survive in the wild for the next hundred years as habitats grow scarce.
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Well, there were no more than 7 individuals on the planet some time around the end of the last ice age...that's about 10-12,000 years ago. Nobody's sure how many are left now, but estimates put it at much less than 10,000. However, they would be doing just fine if we hadn't hunted them all out of the picture!