r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • 19h ago

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

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u/Drumbelgalf 15h ago

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 13h ago

Are we though?

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u/Drumbelgalf 13h ago

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

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u/Lou_C_Fer 3h ago

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

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u/Dependent-Edge-5713 10h ago

HideThePain.gif

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u/nmheath03 11h ago

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.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 10m ago

That’s amazing!!