Asian cheetahs, also known as Iranian cheetahs, are widely distributed in Asia, including Iran, India, Pakistan, the Middle East countries and China, but their distribution is most concentrated in India, once tens of thousands of them, in 1948, after the last three leopard cubs were captured, The Asian cheetah has since disappeared 3 times2.
Speaking of the reasons for their extinction, people can't help but sigh, in other regions, they are extinct from habitat destruction and human hunting. In India, in addition to human hunting, their biggest weakness is that they are too docile and are used to domesticate.
As we all know, Indians have a special love for domesticating wild animals, including cobras, monkeys, etc. are within their domestication range, in the history of India, their various dynasties and dignitaries are extremely obsessed with the domestication of cheetahs The most famous is the Indian Mughal Dynasty, when Akbar the Great's obsession with cheetahs reached the realm of selflessness, he reigned for 49 years, a total of nearly 9,000 cheetahs.
In order to domesticate cheetahs, he almost ignored the government, and all the important affairs of the family and country were handled by his confidants, not only did he personally catch cheetahs, but also established a large-scale leopard domestication base, domesticated a large number of cheetahs in one place, and each cheetah arranged a domesticator, who selected the most robust cheetah to be personally tamed, and after the taming, he gave the cheetah a safflower, and then pulled it to the wild to hunt forest deer. When the tamed cheetah hunted for the first time, Abak the Great personally guarded it with a bow and arrow, and if the cheetah was successful, if he dragged the prey back, it was considered successful, and if he did not return, he personally shot it.
In order to catch cheetahs for the royal family and dignitaries, not only the nobles themselves catch a large number of themselves, but also offer rewards for acquisition, mainly young leopards, a leopard can be tamed for six months, the temperament is as docile as a domestic dog, and the bark is like a cat. And can live in harmony with the owner's family and the livestock in the family, more importantly, they have superb hunting skills, domesticated cheetahs at home mean that there is no shortage of meat, such as rabbits, wild boars, forest deer and other small animals for cheetahs, effortless, much more efficient than hounds.
However, unfortunately, cheetahs in captivity environment, the reproductive rate is extremely low, almost infertile, in order to domesticate cheetahs, you need to go to the wild to catch, the premise of the capture is to kill the adult cheetah and then catch the cub. Poor people generally did not have the right to domesticate cheetahs, and had to sell them to the nobles, who made leopard skins for sale when they were playthings and had no domestication value. As a result, in a vicious circle, the Asian cheetah was extremely rare in 1930, and in 1948, the last three cub leopards were captured by the nobility and became extinct.
The reason for the extinction of cheetahs is ironic and deeply regrettable, just because it is easy to tame and become a human plaything and extinction, which is also another kind of wild animals, today, African cheetahs still exist, but common characteristics make them also in danger, the Middle East local tycoons often take pleasure in domesticating cheetahs, which also sounded the alarm for African cheetahs!
To protect wild animals, alarm bells should always ring!