1.
Why do you
never
find cats playing poker in the jungle?
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How come you
always
find the cat in the last place you look?
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Too many cheetah.
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Once you find it, you stop looking.
Cheetahs Are Walking Themselves to Death - Yahoo News: A century ago, more than 100,000 cheetahs roamed the wild. Today, the majestic cats number fewer than 10,000—and conservationists and scientists have been trying to figure out why. One common theory: Bigger predators chased away the cheetahs’ prey, making it harder for them to get enough food.
A new study sheds light on another culprit: human-created barriers, such as fences and roads, that force cheetahs to travel long distances to find food.
“If you mess with the environment and put up a road, fence, or house, you might not be killing animals outright, but you might force some animals to move differently or move further, which increases their energy cost,”
said
biologist Mike Scantlebury of Queen’s University in Belfast, who coauthored the study, which was published Thursday in Science.
He noted that in some parts of South Africa, cheetahs coexist with farmers, livestock, and dogs that protect those animals, forcing the cats to make longer journeys in search of prey.
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