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Published: 2011-04-16 12:54:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 60317; 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based on information from this site: www.messybeast.com/genetics/mu… (in case the site is down for any reason here's an archived version of the page: web.archive.org/web/2013082208… ) I did use a little bit of creative liberty with the exact colors and marking positions, since there are no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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Oooh finally! A different animal roleplay! I still do wolf roleplay but after so many...yea. Let me know when you get your site together!
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Haha, yeah I agree, to many same-y roleplay sites. I ran a couple of sites four-five years ago, one with wolves, but an awesome plot (that people actually participated in), one with magical unicorns and one with cheetahs as well.
I'm not sure if I'll ever open this new one, since I'd be tied to maintaining it for a long long time and I'm going to university this year, which might take a lot of my free time away. But the plot would be quite cool and original; cheetahs living in an Ancient Egyptian setting, three factions competing for survival in an oasis that the Two-legged Ones abandoned long ago, and various deep and compelling religions as well.
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That sounds like a pretty interesting plot! And I understand. University is probably gonna take most if not all of your time.
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Of course, there's always the chance that my first few years of uni will be easy enough to maintain an active site. 
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If it is, let me know! And good luck at uni by the way.
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oh cool! , Really love the maltese and chinchilla cheetah
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They are very pretty. ^^ Did you know there were/are also tigers with the chinchilla mutation? Bluish-gray tigers with dark gray stripes.
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no I did not, I would LOVE to see that!
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Maybe if I have time I might do other big cat mutations as well. Maybe tigers and leopards next.
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Wow, that's a really great idea! I'm kinda obsessed with animals(mainly canines, big cats, and equines), and LOVE the rarer colors. I've been meaning to fool around with tiger and cheetah colors for a long time as well 
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The blue cheetah is win
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Very useful, I'm faving in case I ever need to use this
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wow this is really cool. i didn't know about half of these!
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the ticked one is called Northwest African Cheetah [link] it use to live in Algeria desert and sahara but sadly it was hunted to extinction
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I have heard of the Saharan cheetah, but it is/was more like a subspecies, not a simple color mutation. My ticked cheetah is based on a description of a cheetah shot in Tanzania.
Here's the exact description from the site I used:
"A cheetah with hardly any spots was shot in Tanzania on 1921 (Pocock), it had only a few spots on the neck and back and these were unusually small. This is possibly the same mutation which causes ticked (Abyssinian-type pattern) cats; any markings are restricted to the face, legs and tail with possibly some thin stripes around the neck and barring on the legs. The background colour remains the normal colour, it is just the pattern which is missing."
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Also, Wikipedia suggests that around 50 Northwest African cheetahs still live in Algeria, so hopefully all is not lost yet for these amazing animals.
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yeah but some its relatives weren't lucky like the
Barbary Leopard [link]
Barbary lion [link]
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Yes, unfortunately that's true. 
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wow! about time someone made something like this! i would have but i didn't know about half of these!
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Well, all my information came from the Messybeast site, without it I would not have known most of these either.
Hmm, maybe I should do other feline mutations as well. It would take a lot of time though.
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yeah! there are a lot of leopard mutations, i think you should do those next if you do make another guide!
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Yeah, leopards and tigers next. If I have the time.
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Thank you for posting this. I saw somewhere that people were having a debate on this earlier this year. Its cool to have back up when you post things that most people would say "That's not real" to. Awesome!
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Glad to have been of assistance.
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LOL yeah, that's a time where imagination can pack it's bags and leave, i want pics! lol!
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Sometimes I just wish people did a little research before they complain "OMG it's sooo unrealistic!" It's not unrealistic, it's nature.
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I find all this really interresting, natural mutations are sometimes fantastic, and cheetas are a really good exemple of a species that, near of the extinction, continue to make all to survive...
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I completely agree, variety is the spice of life.
It's a shame what's happening with cheetahs nowadays, especially the critically endangered Iranian cheetah with only around 70 animals left.
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I totaly agree with you, chettahs are awesome animals who need to be protected, and that's really sad to see that they -and alot of other animal species- are in danger because of human activities 
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I think the worst effect on wildlife is human overpopulation. Developing countries are growing way too fast and even Western society is often "Oh noes, we have negative population growth! Think of the (future) economy!" I think it's great, less people means less consumption of food and mass-produced crap means less resource exploitation means more room for wildlife on this planet.
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I couldn't agree more with your opinion ! That's what I always tought, human overpopulation is the worst thing that could happen for our planet, wildlife, but also for ourselves, and the problem is that, as you said, most of people don't understand that "more people" dont mean "better economy", that's even insane to think that ! We can already see a lot of lands who have population problems, people dying of hunger because natural resources are not enough for all
Well, that's great to speak with other people in other lands who have the same vision about all that 
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Yeah, people (and especially industry leaders) need to realize that the current plan for economic growth, which is to keep producing and consuming more and more goods, just isn't sustainable anymore. I mean, imagine a world where everybody (even in the currently underdeveloped countries) had everything they needed. How would the economy continue to grow? There would be no new markets anymore, and no need for new products. And yet look what has happened lately when our economy wasn't "growing": huge unemployment, living standards worsening etc. And yet zero economic growth will become inevitable unless we somehow make way to a completely new economic model that doesn't require growth in the current sense in order to continue existing.
I'm a bit torn about my country's policies. Our population is quickly decreasing because most families only have one or two children, or none at all. There are only about 1.3 million inhabitants in Estonia and once that drops to around a million by the end of the century, our culture wouldn't be able to sustain itself any longer, and Estonians as a nationality would die out. So there's quite a lot of propaganda here to have more children and while the more patriotic side of me cheers this on, the more global part of me wonders if maybe less people on Earth would be a good thing, even if some cultures would have to be sacrificed. I mean, even if every nation in the world would somehow have exactly zero population growth tomorrow, we'd still have 7 billion mouths to feed, and if current events are any indication, then even that number is too much.
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Very interesting 
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Thank you, always glad to point people to interesting places.
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