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Again you have missed the point. The conditions in the Sahel are massively different than the conditions in the Antarctic but ostriches and penguins are still both birds.Ostriches actually do not live within the Sahara Desert itself. They only live in the Sahel-the outskirts and semi arid regions of the Sahara, which has a more moderate climate than the actual sahara desert itself. Sahel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ostrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Again you have missed the point. The conditions in the Sahel are massively different than the conditions in the Antarctic but ostriches and penguins are still both birds.
Now I understand what youre trying to say. Animals of similar species (felines and birds) can live in massively difference biomes and regions of the world.
However, that still doesnt explain how cheetahs could have once been widespread all over the Sahara Desert historically, as many maps and sources show. There are no large herbivores that actually live in the Sahara Desert that cheetahs can hunt. There are ostriches and gazelles there, but they only live in the outskirts of the desert and the sahel. Camels arent an adequate food supply for cheetahs who supposedly lived in the sahara. There are only 5 million humans in the sahara who live in isolated areas (who herd camels), and that isnt enough of a food supply for cheetahs who supposedly lived everywhere in the Sahara.
Cheetahs only lived "everywhere in the Sahara" during a time when there was food for them to survive there. The Sahara has not always been a desert. Today there is no food for Cheetahs in most of the Sahara, and therefore no Cheetahs in most of the Sahara.
Green Sahara: How climate change transformed the desert
Lions and leopards do live in some deserts and arid areas (kalahri and namib deserts in africa, and arabian dry areas near mountains), but if you check out a map of their historical ranges, lions and leopards (even when they were once historically widespread all over north africa and the middle east) have never lived in the Sahara or Arabian deserts, which are two of the most dry hot lifeless deserts in the world, with sand dunes, etc. However, according to a map of cheetah historical range, they once lived in the sahara and arabian deserts. According to a map of hyena range, they do live in the arabian and sahara deserts.
Ostriches dont live in deserts as dry and harsh as the Sahara.
Orly?
That map shows ostriches in the Sahel. What's your point?
Cheetahs live in grassland, and open woodland areas. See here. They do not live in true deserts, though they do live in some fairly dry areas. Being ambush predators, they can, for example, lie in wait at waterholes.
The so-called "Saharan Cheetah" (which may well be a distinct species) appears to have some desert adaptations, though it is very poorly understood, partly because it only seems to hunt at night. My understanding, however, is that its range covers the Sahel and mountainous areas of the Sahara where some water exists.
The striped (as distinct from the spotted) hyena does live in some desert areas, being adapted for fairly dry conditions.
What was your question again?
compared to many thousands which probably lived there decades ago
Evidence?
The map that I posted on the previous page (of cheetahs historic range, I'll post it below) shows cheetahs living in probably hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Sahara, in the mountainous areas. If cheetahs were that common in the Sahara, how can you say that their population in that region wasn't at least in the tens of thousands?
How long ago do you think that the cheetah's range was as depicted in the map on the left? Also, relatively there is not much of the Sahara that was considered part of the cheetah's range.The map that I posted on the previous page (of cheetahs historic range, I'll post it below) shows cheetahs living in probably hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Sahara, in the mountainous areas. If cheetahs were that common in the Sahara, how can you say that their population in that region wasn't at least in the tens of thousands?
The map that I posted on the previous page (of cheetahs historic range, I'll post it below) shows cheetahs living in probably hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Sahara, in the mountainous areas.
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