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Published: 2011-04-16 12:54:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 60312; Favourites: 1349; Downloads: 6065
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A cheetah color mutation guide I did for my new unfinished roleplay site. The site's currently on a long hiatus and I might never actually launch it, but I thought this would be really neat to share with you guys.All of these pelt variations have occurred at some point or another and are based on information from this site: www.messybeast.com/genetics/mu… (in case the site is down for any reason here's an archived version of the page: web.archive.org/web/2013082208… ) I did use a little bit of creative liberty with the exact colors and marking positions, since there are no photographs of mutant specimens except for king cheetahs (UPDATE: a ticked (spotless) cheetah has been photographed in Kenya! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic… ).
Fun fact: Cheetahs have abnormally little variation in their genetic code, due to a severe population bottleneck that happened during the last ice age. And yet it's incredible to find such a wide range of possible mutations (though many may have been lost forever by now).
Feel free to base your character on these descriptions, but please don't post this guide anywhere else without asking for my permission first and linking back here.
Cheetah template made by me.
Edit: Wow, a hundred favorites in just eight hours? I didn't know there were so many cheetah lovers out there!
Edit2: 300 favorites by 27 Aug 2011, and more are added every week. Thank you, really, it means a lot to me.
Edit3: Reached 1000 favorites on 30 May 2015
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Comments: 294
Anytime Buddy more to come.
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anytime.. have those types of cheetahs been seen in real life?
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Yep!
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This is so cool! Do chinchilla cheetahs really exist!?!?
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They did at some point, since they've been documented in the past. Though they weren't of course called chinchilla cheetahs, that's just the genetic mutation that is thought to have caused their bluish-gray coloration.
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No problem, glad you like it!
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This is really helpful! I've been looking everywhere for a reference for my Chinchilla and Erythristic cheetah characters. Beautiful lineart as well. <3
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Thank you! Always nice to know that people find it helpful. 
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a great guide!! its nice seeing some of these as an image seeing as they don't really have great photos on google, at least none that I have seen!
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Thank you! I'm glad you found this useful (and I hope that more cheetahs with mutant coat patterns are discovered).
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same here!! >w< along with other big cat mutations >w<
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I might do another guide with tiger and leopard mutations in the future.
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So. This is so great that I used it as a reference ((this and Google, and the link you have in your description))
[link]
and
[link]
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Oh wow, they are super cute! And thank you very much!
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Thanks!
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Wow! This is an excellent diagram! I also think that the Chinchilla blue cheetah is very well done, considering the fact that there's never been a photo of him.
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Thank you! I based the Chinchilla cheetah on a description of a specimen from the 17th century and also what other animals with the mutation tend to look like.
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You're welcome!
Oh, neat, based on the description from the 17th century? That just makes it better!
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Yep, a bluish-white cheetah was presented to the Moghul Emperor of India in 1608: "Raja Bir Singh Deo brought a white cheetah to show me. Although other sorts of creatures, both birds and beasts have white varieties .... I had never seen a white cheetah. Its spots, which are (usually) black, were of a blue colour, and the whiteness of the body also inclined to blue-ishness." This suggested a chinchilla mutation.
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This is an amazing reference!!! So beautiful... The King as always been my personal favorite...but now...oh I don't know. That ticked cheetah is simply gorgeous ((I followed the link, lol)) It's a shame that the others are so rare.....stupid past people, shootin' stuff....
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Thank you for the lovely comment, it made my day.
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I liked it very much!!!
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They did? I didn't know that. 
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Epic '-'
I Love it, its so really Nice, is it Real?
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Thank you! ^^
Yes, they're real (or have at least existed in the past). All my information comes from [link]
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whow, interesting things ... thank you for the link ^^ np.
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I love you do a beautiful job of showing all the real life color variations, and is very sad that we never see some of them again.
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Aww, thank you very much. 
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And now the ticked cheetah has been spotted in the wild..
[link]
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Oh. My. God. That's incredible! Thank you SO much for the link, I'll add it to the description!
And he looks really similar to the one I made too, though I'll need to update mine to get rid of the small tail stripes, since he doesn't seem to have any.
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^^ Cheetahs need all the love they can get!! If you interested, a friend and I are working on a comic involving cheetahs. ;3
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Go cheetah lovers! 
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^^ Thank you very much, when we have a few pages up, would you like a link to it? We'll both have to do more cheetah anatomy study before we begin. Mine still look to much like the hevy set panthers... ^^'
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Sure, I'd like to see the comic when you post it.
Oh, and I only just found out about it today, but a photographer recently found a living spotless cheetah: [link] Really cool news.
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Alrighty, the comic has its own account. :3 Distance-Comic ^^
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Oh really??? XD It just so happens these twins /are/ spotless cheetahs! This could be a good reference for us to use!! Thank you
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What a cool coincidence then!
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^^ of course! Gota watch those fellow feline/canine lovers!
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Yup, at least according to information from this site: [link]
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