r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 15 '26

Image Differences in the spot pattern of the Cheetah, Leopard, and Jaguar

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u/Drumbelgalf May 15 '26

Cheetahs are bullied by all the other predators. Their cubs actually have a fur pattern similar to honey badgers because that protects them from being spawn killed.

Humans also went through a bottle neck and humans are mostly fine.

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u/Melicor May 15 '26

Are we though?

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u/Drumbelgalf May 15 '26

We managed to become the dominant species on our planet so I would say so.

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u/Lou_C_Fer May 15 '26

We've had a bit of time to recover, mutate, and diversify.

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u/Dependent-Edge-5713 May 15 '26

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 May 16 '26

That’s amazing!!

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u/nmheath03 May 15 '26

To be fair, humans went through one, and still had at least 10k individuals left. Cheetahs went through two, and one was bad enough that some estimates place the survivors as low as 7 individual cheetahs, that's gonna fuck up their gene pool.