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Cat and dog
If you visit the San Diego Zoo and decide to see the cheetahs, you can see quite a number of them with one dog, and it's not by chance ran dog, and "companion", specially selected under the program "Animal Ambassadors".
In the last century in the wild live about 100 thousand cheetahs, now there are less than 12 thousand, and they were completely destroyed in 13 countries. Terrible-looking predator, the cheetah shy by nature, most cheetahs leads a lonely life, and does not admit to themselves one that greatly complicates the process of breeding in captivity, especially given the fact that the estrus in females begins only in the presence of the male.
Ironically, the presence of dogs, cheetahs suffer much easier than the presence of other specimens of its kind, in fact, the presence of a number of dogs allows tame cheetahs instincts and make them more tolerant to the presence of other people, and even cheetahs.
In 4 out of 19 cheetahs San Diego Zoo has a companion - a dog, take them predominantly from shelters, given the nature of the animal and reduce the three-month puppies from the cheetahs of the same age. The dog has a dominant position in the pair, and serves as a model for the behavior, as well as to protect the ward. Since childhood, animals spend almost all the time together.
The presence of dogs possible to suppress the cowardly cat's nature and not only contribute to the great success in breeding cheetahs zoo (135 in 40 years), but also to create visitors the opportunity to witness live the speed of the fastest runners of nature. Cheetah accelerates from 0 to 60 miles (96 6 km) per hour for 3, 4 seconds.
Speed is very important for survival, as the cheetah is not adapted to fight larger predators. The cheetah is capable of speeds of 60-70 miles (96, 6 - 112 6 km) per hour, depending on its size, but because they can run only 20-30 seconds if run will take a minute or more, the risk of dying animal, since the stress and heat exhaustion can literally "fry" in his gut at this speed.
The only dog - a companion who was not taken from the shelter, this Anatolian Shepherd Yeti.
No it is not known how the idea came to podselyat dogs cheetahs, but that this breed has helped her advance.
In 1981, the zoo was given two cheetah with dogs, and condition for the transfer was not to separate the animals, as they are accustomed to each other. At the same time, the Anatolian Shepherd Dog indirectly helped to preserve the population of cheetahs in Africa.
About 20 years ago, Dr. Laurie Marker, founder and director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in the Southern African nation of Namibia, was brought from Turkey, these dogs and gave local farmers to protect their herds of sheep dogs. Large dogs successfully distilled off predators and deprived farmers need to kill animals.
For the first time in 30 years the population of cheetahs started to grow.
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In the last century in the wild live about 100 thousand cheetahs, now there are less than 12 thousand, and they were completely destroyed in 13 countries. Terrible-looking predator, the cheetah shy by nature, most cheetahs leads a lonely life, and does not admit to themselves one that greatly complicates the process of breeding in captivity, especially given the fact that the estrus in females begins only in the presence of the male.
Ironically, the presence of dogs, cheetahs suffer much easier than the presence of other specimens of its kind, in fact, the presence of a number of dogs allows tame cheetahs instincts and make them more tolerant to the presence of other people, and even cheetahs.
In 4 out of 19 cheetahs San Diego Zoo has a companion - a dog, take them predominantly from shelters, given the nature of the animal and reduce the three-month puppies from the cheetahs of the same age. The dog has a dominant position in the pair, and serves as a model for the behavior, as well as to protect the ward. Since childhood, animals spend almost all the time together.
The presence of dogs possible to suppress the cowardly cat's nature and not only contribute to the great success in breeding cheetahs zoo (135 in 40 years), but also to create visitors the opportunity to witness live the speed of the fastest runners of nature. Cheetah accelerates from 0 to 60 miles (96 6 km) per hour for 3, 4 seconds.
Speed is very important for survival, as the cheetah is not adapted to fight larger predators. The cheetah is capable of speeds of 60-70 miles (96, 6 - 112 6 km) per hour, depending on its size, but because they can run only 20-30 seconds if run will take a minute or more, the risk of dying animal, since the stress and heat exhaustion can literally "fry" in his gut at this speed.
The only dog - a companion who was not taken from the shelter, this Anatolian Shepherd Yeti.
No it is not known how the idea came to podselyat dogs cheetahs, but that this breed has helped her advance.
In 1981, the zoo was given two cheetah with dogs, and condition for the transfer was not to separate the animals, as they are accustomed to each other. At the same time, the Anatolian Shepherd Dog indirectly helped to preserve the population of cheetahs in Africa.
About 20 years ago, Dr. Laurie Marker, founder and director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in the Southern African nation of Namibia, was brought from Turkey, these dogs and gave local farmers to protect their herds of sheep dogs. Large dogs successfully distilled off predators and deprived farmers need to kill animals.
For the first time in 30 years the population of cheetahs started to grow.
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