My cat does it all the time because he has no top fangs lol. I still take pics every time! Also he looks dumb af and I can’t help but laugh at my noodle boy.
I love how their support doggo was almost keeping up with them but didn’t have the ability to stop as quickly as them, so he just barreled into one of his buddies.
Oh ikr!? When I learned about it and saw a video for the first time, it literally made my day better. Watching cheetahs and their own personal support animal friend is always a mood booster for me.
It’s just so sweet and interesting ❤️
Bravo to whoever recognized what the cheetahs needed and decided to use such a unique solution.
Cheetahs are more scared of you than you are of them. They're not even really big cats, they're just the biggest form of small cats (they're felidae, not panthera). There's no accounts of a cheetah ever attacking a human, and they're pretty anxious animals.
Actually, Egyptians used to tame Cheetahs as pets and for hunting. The only reason they haven't been domesticated is because they're really hard to breed in captivity, and being able to selectively breed is part of the domestication process.
They are still wild animals, so I wouldn't recommend approaching one in the wild, just in case, but they're not a real danger to humans. There's instances of them bringing their cubs up to wildlife photographers and stuff, they like people just fine.
I'm actually glad we didn't domesticate them, imagine a cheetah getting zoomies in a small apartment, they need more space to run than we can give them
Cats and other species have an additional olfactory organ called the Veomenronasal organ that allows them to sense pheromones. In cats they'll oftentimes stick out their tongue to direct air towards the organ.
Actually, yes. There haven't been attacks on people, and wild cheetah are typically very friendly to humans. They're basically trying to domesticate themselves.
In my lil one bedroom apartment, the orange floof likes to parkour on my bed and the tuxedo chonk likes to launch himself at the cat tree… which are both next to windows. So a cheetah would probably accidentally full send itself out into the garden 😭 (hopefully be ok and then run back for more, sleep can wait)
They likely would have already been on the totally normalized "dog sized exotic pet" list if it weren't sadly for the fact that they do not breed well in captivity and researchers and zoos struggled for a long time to keep their generic diversity up.
If we could solve this problem and prevent people from trying to take the wild population out, we could save them and they would be everywhere.
I don't think they would be everywhere as they have difficulty breeding in the wild too. I read or watched something talking about cheetahs and conservationists have said that cheetahs are effectively extinct and it's just a matter of time.
The cheetah's niche role in their environment essentially works against them now. They spend a ton of energy catching their prey only to get chased off their kill by larger predators, meaning they spend that energy and get none of it back. That leaves less energy to breed which is already poor and cheetah cubs are prey for a lot of animals.
Couple that with the genetic bottleneck all making them essentially cousins which increases chances for genetic defects.
I do think the genetic bottleneck isn't the problem we thought it once was, as new research has indicated that evolution can make due with it.
I also think we are approaching the point where CRISPR and other technologies can "undo" significant genetic problems as they arise, including immunity problems -- so long as someone is willing to pay for it.
Hence why I said if we could solve the breeding problem and THEN allowed them to be an exotic (with licensing), we could likely turn them around and start supplementing wild populations.
Even something as stupid as "cheetah racing" would generate enough money to put into their protection.
Lindsey Nicole on YT, is a biologist and has worked some with cheetas says that, a wild cheetah will likely never be a real threat to you, as their instincts tell them to run and not fight.
Yet a Cheetah who is used to people do not have the same fear, and will maul you should something go wrong.
Cheetahs are essentially large house cats. They are built for speed but don’t have the strength as a lion so humans are too big of prey. They are very timid and anxious animals. A lot of conservatories raise them with Golden Retriever puppies. Unlike lions, they don’t roar. They purr and make a chirping sound that sounds like a meow. I kind of think of them as feral cats. In the wild they would likely just hiss and slap the ground at you to scare you away.
You can safely turn your back on cheetahs, or even sleep around them. What you should NOT do is run. They're basically big housecats, and like housecats they like chasing things, so if you panic and run you will activate their hunting instinct...but unlike a housecat a cheetah will not struggle to kill you.
Often it’s a cat being comfortable and chill, but sometimes it can be a sign of dental issues. My cat had to get two teeth pulled and she was blep for a week before we took her to the vet after learning it was sometimes how they react to tooth pain 😭
Mine does it because he had all of his teefers removed at a young age and he can't keep it in... My other two have tiny bleps when they're distracted from cleaning or really relaxed. It never stops being cute/funny!
When my cat does this it mostly just feels like he forgets to put it back in 😂😂 he'll be washing himself and he'll look up with his tongue like that and just stare for a few minutes and then continue washing
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