How did it survive all the past climate change?
Unlike the experts from Washington, I have actually been in Africa. I have hunted in Namibia, which has a really good population of cheetahs. Most of the country gets around 20 inches of rain per year, except in the Namib desert which get about 3mm of rain a year.
It is hot there, cheetahs thrive. Our PH laughed at the idea that they were endangered, saying that only the US said they were endangered, US hunters couldn’t kill them, so the ones from Spain and Germany hunted the cheetahs. I saw more than one, including one that was eating a newborn calf.