Cross-breeding is the best insurance for any specie. By instint and by necessity, it is wise to cross-breed.
Cheetah is one of the species on this planet that suffers from the lack of it. They are too inbred and the affects are showing in their overall population. Poor breeding, defects and vulnerable population are all pointing to their highly inbred culture.
Such a shame for an animal that is the land’s fastest and perhaps the most elegant of all felines. They can accelerate faster than cars and in short bursts outrun many vehicles. Such amazing anatomy that blends agility, strength and grace perfectly.
It’s name means the varigated body (derived from sanskrit word chitrakaya). Such a beautiful and athletic animal now teaches us that resisting ‘cross’ anything could bring the specie to its bare end. Cross breeding of thoughts, cultures or people…are all critical elements in how succesful the speciewill be in surviving and flourishing.
In a way it is so clear…how would you evolve if you weren’t curious or attracted to anything different? The resistence of unknown will always exist but when it gets in the way of curiosity, it can rein havoc on the survival coz’ it essentially terminates learning.
Cross-breading of ideas means better vetting, better testing and thus better idea generation. As a bonus, it also prevents group think.
Cross-breeding in plants and animals means learning better skills, gaining more resistance to diseases. Essentially, it divides the flaws and multiplies the strentghs.
I hope we save cheetahs from extinction. And I hope, we learn a lesson to embrace differences and revere them as part of evolution.
