How to Avoid Becoming a Meal for a Cheetah
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:33.6 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Jason Goldman. The Cheetah is the rarest |
| 0:42.2 | big cat in Africa. Less than 7,000 adults remain on the planet. Think of it this way. For every |
| 0:49.6 | cheetah on the planet, there's more than four Starbucks coffee shops. The most important cheetah stronghold is in central Namibia. |
| 0:58.0 | But the cheetahs there don't live within national parks. |
| 1:01.0 | They live on privately owned farmland. |
| 1:04.0 | There were farmers having huge problems with cheetahs, losing a lot of livestock, |
| 1:08.0 | and there were other farmers who actually didn't have any problem at all. |
| 1:12.5 | Ecologist Jorg Melsheimer, from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, |
| 1:18.9 | assumed at first that all farmers had cheetah trouble. It was just that some were more likely to |
| 1:24.5 | complain about it. But after tracking 50 collared cheetahs, |
| 1:28.5 | he began to suspect that there really was a pattern to their killing. |
| 1:32.6 | By the time his team had data from 106 cheetahs, |
| 1:36.2 | colored over the course of a decade, |
| 1:38.1 | not only was he certain that cheetahs were more likely to kill in some places than in others, |
| 1:42.9 | but that he could solve the problem. |
| 1:45.3 | We indeed found these communication hubs of cheetahs, which are spread evenly across the landscape |
| 1:52.5 | with a high activity of cheetahs within the hubs. Cheetahs are an asocial species, but they still |
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