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Why do people keep saying this animal is trash? The Cheetah is literally the fastest animal on the planet, that makes it far better and superior than a Lion in my opinion.
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>>4772039
>fastest animal on the planet
Nope, that would be the Peregrine Falcon
People probably call it ‘trash’ because it’s overspecialized and doesn’t have much going for it outside of speed
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>>4772045
The Falcon is a Bird though, not an Animal.

Cheetahs can win any fight because being the fastest means no Animal can run away from it and no Animal can catch it.
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>>4772039
If the average human can beat it up barehanded, it's lame.
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>>4772039
That's just a lean cat Labrador.
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>>4772045
Yeah and sloths are overspecialized because their only defense is being so calorie inefficient that it isn't worth the trouble hunting them 90% of the time. Overspecialization doesn't make an animal "bad" and this shitty TierZoo esque powerscaling of nature is a really shitty way to look at things in general.
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>>4772039
They're overspecialized, they can't defend their kills or cubs from other predators, and they're so genetically similar that their populations are super vulnerable to disease. They're living on borrowed time.
Leopardchads stay winning.
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>>4772049
>The Falcon is a Bird though, not an Animal.
What’s the difference in your mind
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You fuckers are ignoring the fact that cheetah-like felids have independently and convergently evolved to be extremely fast terrestrial predators several times with the American cheetah and the Giant cheetah to name a few.

So again, tier zoo sucks and is a hack, there are no OP creatures, there are no low tier creatures. Things work until they don't and there's little inbetween since niches and environments fluctuate which leads to different means of surviving while some more specialized animals get left behind.
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I think they're cute and I wish we could domesticate them.
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>>4772049
cheetah can go just as fast as the falcon if it jumps off a cliff, flying speed doesn't count
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>>4774171
Domestic cheetahs have been a thing since at least 3000 BCE
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>>4772039
It's just in the wrong continent, put them in Australia and they would thrive there.
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>>4772045
Peregrine Falcons are hacks who rely on gravity
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>>4772039
I love cheetos!
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>>4772049
>The Falcon is a Bird though, not an Animal.
Birds are animals. Fish are animals. Insects are animals.
The cheetah is an animal and it is also a mammal.
Perhaps you mean that the cheetah is the fastest mammal in the world.
Yes, the cheetah is the fastest mammal in the world.
Whether the cheetah is "better" than a lion is a ridiculous question.
All currently existing animals, fungi, bacteria and plants are the current (temporary) pinnacle of evolution. They are all the result of literally billions of years of uninterrupted successful reproduction. Even you.
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>>4774210
>Domestic cheetahs have been a thing since at least 3000 BCE
Putting a wild animal in a cage and then putting the cage in your house does not mean that you have domesticated a species.
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>>4774247
the species is so friendly to humans that there is not even a single documented case of anyone being killed by a wild one.

You can turn your back from one, you can be close to it, you can even pet it.
meanwhile you gamble your life everytime you turn your back from an ambush cat.
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>>4772039
they are extremely squishy they can't even 1v1 a hyena, they're are beautiful tho, their future is assured as long as humans live
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>>4774196
>>4774216
cheetoid cope
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>>4774210
You mean tame. Domestication would involve getting them to breed without issues in captivity.
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>>4774270
They sometimes attack women, and likely small children, from the back sometimes. They're wild enough to still be dangerous.
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FACT no one has ever called cheetahs trash
FACT everyone has always loved cheetahs
FACT cheetahs are the best
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>>4774691
Facts.
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>>4772039
>fastest animal
Could you eat them while fasting?
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>>4774691
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>>4772039
Cheetahs were doing fine before rifles. Especially brown people with rifles.
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>>4774306
The only thing stopping captive breeding from working is, ironically, the fact that we inbred them so severely the first time we domesticated them. They're barely genetically viable in the wild, in captivity their gene pool is cripplingly shallow.
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>>4774691
Holy Based
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>>4778909
What if we used machine learning to, based on the genomes of all known cheetahs, generate novel ones that could be introduced to the gene pool?
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>>4778736
>Maharaja
>Great King
>ruler of a few square miles
what is it with browns and title bloat
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>>4779461
Lack of executive functioning? They don't seem to have a proper grasp of scale and priorities in general—look at how long the Israelis and Palestinians have been squabbling over a worthless strip of desert the size of New Jersey.
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>>4779461
Makes them feel special or something
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>>4779461
Some guy in my office has "Global Head of XYZ" on his linkedin profile and XYZ is a back office team of six people.
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>>4778736
imagine how many people he saved by taking out so many dangerous predators. Hero.
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>>4779461
Wait till you hear about all the micro states in the HRE.
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>>4778736
>Kill 1710 tigers no one bats an eye
>Kill 3 cheetahs EVERYONE loses their mind
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>>4781888
Tigers are fine, but they're also IRL monsters that will rip you limb from limb if given the opportunity, whereas cheetahs routinely get mogged out of their kills by hyenas and require emotional support dogs to exist in captivity
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>>4778909
>we inbred them so severely the first time we domesticated them
That never happened.
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>>4783976
> require emotional support dogs to exist in captivity
Huh?
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>>4783976
I want to emotionally support an anxious cheetah.
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>>4784060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vKWk6tc2zY
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>>4784060
It's true. They tend to do poorly in captivity in zoos where tons of people are looking at them because it stresses them out. If they're stressed enough they won't drink or eat enough which can cause all sorts of problems, particularly with their kidneys.

So many zoos pair cheetah cubs with dogs so that the cheetah can reference their own response off of the dog's and not be an anxious wreck all day. It works surprisingly well actually, and the paired cheetahs tend to have way less trouble with crowds and people than the solo ones.
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>>4783976
A lot of them tend to be labs for some reason. I guess they've just got a good temperament for it.
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>>4774215
plenty of placental mammals thrive there, it's a huge problem.
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>>4778736
fucking Koreans ruined it for the cheetuh
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>>4772039
it gets bullied hard by all other predators in its natural habitat. It's very very cute and good at its niche niche but that's it. Badass predators like lions and the like have big dick energy and appeal to the male fantasy, as opposed to get bullied all the time.
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>>4772049
bait or retarded?
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>>4785259
cheetahsissies… this is kinda true…
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>>4785217
Seriously? And they don’t try to maul the dogs or anything? Actually pretty cool psychological manipulation
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>>4785259
>badass lions
>gets his meal mogged by a single hyena pack
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>>4785276
Nope. If anything the dogs occasionally bully the cheetahs, but that's also rare.

Cheetahs really aren't big on mauling things. Their claws are blunted and non-retractible, so they're basically only used to help them with traction while running really fucking fast, and their teeth aren't really big enough to rip into things the way that a lion or tiger could. They generally kill their prey by clamping down on the throat and cutting off oxygen until the prey suffocates for those exact reasons.

I'm also pretty sure that that the dog would win if it actually came down to a knock down drag out fight. But that's never been an issue since they're socialized and raised together basically from birth.
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>>4785511
where can i adopt a cheetah dog bonded pair
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>>4772049
How is a cheetah winning a fight against a polar bear for example? bitting and running until the polar bear bleeds out?
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>>4785276
Cheetahs are overgrown housecats, not true big cats. They have ancestral knowledge telling them that if they were smaller, the dogs would eat them.
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>>4785533
It would run really fast until the polar bear's neck snaps from whipping its head around to keep track of it, easy. They can never lose because they're the fastest
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>>4785550
that’s quite the power they have
speed really is the best…
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>>4785343
Literally the other way around. Yeens flee like rats when a male comes running in. Hyenafutas keep coping.
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>>4785262
Bait. See: >>4785553
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>>4774159
All nonhuman life forms are "low-tier" (sub-optimal) and must be eradicated. The goal of humanity's existence is to ensure that only the white man exists once all is said and done. All animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria must be erased except for us. Undesirable humans must be culled as well. Undesirable celestial objects must be obliterated. Reality was made for the white man and the white man only.
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>>4772049
>win any fight
dull claws, lol?
>cant run away
does he know about endurance vs speed? it sure can run but not forever, and their prey has mostly pinned down endurance. the opposite of cheetahs were tasmanian tigers who mained on endurance, there is a battle you cant win because as soon as you are tired you are dead and you will be followed for as long as you can run
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>>4772039
>Why do people keep saying this animal is trash?
Because as we speak they are dying out in the wild and being bought/used en masse as personal instagram pets in back yard breeder homes. I'm not even joking.
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>>4772039
>Why do people keep saying this animal is trash?
Their brains have been rotted by TierZoo and video game logic
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>>4789330
But TierZoo videos are just humoristic, they are not to be taken seriously.
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>>4772049
>The Falcon is a Bird though, not an Animal.
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>>4789368
>Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company
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>>4772051
no
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luv cheetos, me
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>>4772049
>The Falcon is a Bird though, not an Animal.
I once had the toughest breakdown in communication happen in a class and it took me five minutes before realizing that it was because the adult woman I was speaking with was using the term "human" to mean "living".
Don't be like that girl, anon, educate yourself.
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>>4785276
Why would they maul an animal which they got raised with, communicate with, play with? Cheetos are social animals, they are insanely skittish, and they pretty much only attack according to one specific vector, high speed chase preys. They are probably safer to be around than wolves raised in captivity.
There was a videos of a cheetoh freaking out and attacking a lady in a zoo a couple years back, the lady was pretty battered and had a couple good slashes, but that was mostly because the guards didn't react very quickly, the second he started wiping the cat with a small stick it fucked away.
Also, dogs are kinda the best possible animal for this because barking is a bit of a hack against other animals, I've seen videos of lions backing off from a barking spaniel because fuck that noise...
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>>4794108
> I've seen videos of lions backing off from a barking spaniel because fuck that noise...
On the other hand, tigers don’t really seem to care
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I like them.
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>>4794104
One neighbour and I had a very difficult time explaining to a retired cop lady neighbour what a window is. I'm not joking. This woman is 100% the dumbest fucking person I've ever met without having some diagnosed condition. I'm from Europe and live in America but somehow, according to her, I'm not an immigrant. Also, you can drive to England from Maine, all cats and birds are girls and dogs are boys (roosters are not birds, they're chickens) and China and Egypt are in Europe. She also once remarked with surprise that we "had the 80s in Italy" (she's my next door neighbour and I was listening to Banana Split by Lio, a French pop singer from the 80s, while doing dishes, which she could hear from her back porch) and, after declaring that she'd gone gluten free, was buying pasta from the supermarket when I took her with me shopping and didn't know that pasta is made from flour, flour is made from wheat and gluten is a naturally occurring thing in wheat (which I had to explain as "like how apples are sweet because they have natural sugars in them"). Apparently, she thought gluten was a poison added by, and I wish I was kidding, George Soros and Bill Gates, to all food because... well, that's what Facebook told her. I would guess it was probably some Onion article or some shit.
She also once remarked with surprise that we have buildings in Europe (after being shown a picture of myself on the street I grew up on, surrounded by tall-ass buildings)
Some people are just stupid. You can't fix stupid.
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>>4794887
sounds aggressively made up
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>>4794866
What does this mean?
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>>4794946
She's sweet as pie, but unfortunately about as clever as one, too.
I wish was making it all up it even just exaggerating but every word of it is true. I would say the same as you were I not the one who experienced her shockingly stupid musings first hand.
Anyway, you only confirm that this woman is just unbelievably stupid.

A less stupid, /an/-related thing she's said:
My missus got her into that Australian Josh Gad werewolf show and she'd sometimes be round ours to watch it with us after my son's gone to bed. She remarked that "they must have different birds in Australia" because the bird sounds heard in that show aren't the same bird sounds you hear here or in American media.
The Australian bird thing is not nearly as dumb a comment to make as "you have buildings in Italy!?" but it's still an extremely silly thing to be surprised by.
To expand on the window thing, she couldn't understand the difference between a window, a window pane, a window frame, a pane of glass and the bay it all goes into. We all eventually dropped the topic and started talking about power washing the sidewalks and driveways and how much it would cost to rent the machine.
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Jesus Christ is the Son of GOD who came to earth and died for the world, so that may have eternal life. Three days later GOD rose Jesus Christ from the dead. He promised that whosever believes in Him, He promised them eternal, when the ask Him for it.
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>>4796249
Sir this is a Wendy's
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cheeto
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>>4796249
Brahma will forgive you for this misunderstanding of Krishna’s message and bless you with a favorable reincarnation as a cheetah’s emotional support dog
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>>4798412
That's all I've ever wanted.
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