Zoo View-Cheetah Cub-Cincinnati Zoo

[gingowitch]

pet neutring needs to stop.

[Abner419]

I don't understand why anyone would want to kill an innocent creature like that.

[BrunetteBella09]

let the cheetah be a cheetah!

[craneywatch]

Sweet sweet child of cheetah... I want want and want him to live long and happy life. I don't say it, I say him. We should treat those as well as many other animals as individuals not as dumb objects!

[DJVN2009]

i wan you...!!!cute

[NitezSwell]

i wan that baby cheeta..!!!cute

[mriguy35]

Run Tommy T, Run!!!!!!!!!

[MrZimmerson]

I Am totaly drawn to the Baby cheetah HE LOOKS FAB!

[suicune02]

aaaaahw so cute! ^^

[Omnissssssslash]

THIS IS A WARNING! No one has dislike this video yet. Don't you dare pressing the dislike button or else...

[LisaMarieJoy1995]

awwwwww!

[sshidae]

I LOVE NATURE !! N WILDLIFEE !! I MISS TOTO !! ;((

[AwesomeBriBri42698]

TOO CUTE :D i really LOVE its big brown eyes

[SmileLaughLearn]

His little nose was twitching at 48 seconds...so cute!!

[ajaykeer23939]

I poach for little cheetahs..

[craneywatch]

@ajaykeer23939 you kill them... and you are proud of that??? Is it true, or you joking?

[ajaykeer23939]

@craneywatch yeah i we hunt some summers in Saharan Desert located (Niger) north Africa... we kill 5-6 adult ones and couple cubs but...rarely. also hunt water baffolo, hyenas,doracus gazelles,addex antelopes, thats how much we could since our minor wildlife licences in Africa... Africa has strict poaching laws these days.... i hunt now in the aAMerica forests these days...

[craneywatch]

@ajaykeer23939 I bid you no cheetah hunt for the sake of all creations anymore!!!

[MeowMorrigan]

@ajaykeer23939 lol, you can't hunt cheetah. It's against the law in Africa.

[FMAfanFMA]

;w; Omg... So. ADORABLE.

[JeffreyFields1968]

u no wat? i cannot believe that anyone could bring themselves to shoot a cheetah. Anyway, nice to know ur keepin the population up!

[Bernler75]

Aww! He's so sweet and curious :D :P

[iLoVeBiGcAtS08]

real shame to see such an amazing animal locked away in a zoo

[kalilamae]

Yeah, I sure hate when zoos try and prevent the extinction of a species.

Really, WHAT were they thinking?

[louispompey]

my thoughts exactly. i hate it when unintelligent do-gooders rabble on about not "locking up" animals

[iamlumin]

I have to agree. Humans destroy the animals habitat, hunt it, poach it, poison it, shoot it, etc, then it's oh, "we have to put it in a reserve" of which they don't know the natural balance, so in the case of the cheetah it doesn't do well, it needs huge territories, then it's oh, "we have to put them in zoos, in cages", ya sure, that's what a beautiful wild creature wants, then it's oh, "we're just trying to help the animal, keep it from extinction. It's oh, "we need to protect it". From who?

[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

The Cheetah's problems unlike nearly every other animal have very little to do with humans.

The Cheetahs went through a population bottleneck about 10,000 years ago. They disappeared from North/south america and had their numbers reduced worldwide drastically due to the effects of the ice age and ecological shifts. Due to this cheetah is incredibly inbred and they are just barely hanging on in the wild. Breeding programs and hopefully genetic modification are really are their only hope

[iamlumin]

That's a theory but not all scientist agree. Even with the challenges the cheetah faced it made a very nice comeback to around 100,000 less than 100 years ago. The drastic decline in numbers it directly connected to human impact. Hunting, poaching, poisoning, farmers who classified them as vermin shot thousands in the 1990's, all this has had a huge impact not to mention the loss of habitat more than likely the biggest issue of all. Why the loss of habitat? Humans.

[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

Making a "comeback" matters very little in terms of genetics. Do you see why this is? Because the vast majority of genes don't change and are just passed down. If you increase the population of something with little diversity you still can only draw from little diversity.

The bottleneck itself narrows the choices from then on. Everything that comes after it will reflect the first generation after the bottleneck. You need population increases AND lots of time if you ever want it back.

[iamlumin]

Genetic diversity is being worked on. The point was regarding human impact and the fact still remains that the drastic drop in numbers over the last one hundred years is directly connected to human impact. So "the cheetahs problems" as you say are at this time directly related to human impact. As far as time goes, I'd say the cheetah is a survivor, as it is still here after surviving multiple near total extinctions. In India they have gone through a localized extinction due entirely to humans.

[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

They do have huge territories. There are thousand square mile national parks around the world which are the few places you can even find these.

It's particularly ironic because hunting really isn't what is killing cheetahs. Their lack of viability, disease, infanticide by other cheetahs, and predation by lions (all of which pre-date human civilization) are what has them in such a sorry state.

[iamlumin]

It's not justing hunting but thousands were killed intentionally by farmers who aimed to exterminate them to protect their livestock. Loss of habitat is a huge issue. Cheetahs don't do well on reserves were the predator/prey balance is often out of whack. In the early 1900's there were close to 100,000 cheetahs on the planet and they had made a nice comeback. Since then the rapid decline has been directly connected to human impact.

[inukag2000]

i saw that baby cheetah today at my school! he's becoming a very strong cub. and he is getting a little bigger too! my school was the first place he went to for the cat ambassador for the first time.

[TheSpeedDemon5]

good job by taking take care of the baby cheetah

[txstoryteller]

Beautiful little (and big) cheetah; I love cheetahs!! FIVE stars; great thing you are doing to try to help the cheetah population!

[dmuth]

I agree with the above comment. :-)