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If that's true then maybe we could graft whole cheetahs together to form Cheetah Voltron.

Maybe you can but please consider, first, whether you should.

Oh, good point. I should reconsider my totally serious and not at all facetious plans to build a giant humanoid robot out of savannah cats.

thank you.

That's all I want to hear. It would be a shame if something went horribly wrong with your cheetah-mech theme park.

Yeah but... what IF it all went right? :D

How fast could a 6 legged cheetah run?

I'm assuming not at all unless you were really, really good at building Cheetah-based abominations.

Irish Wolfhounds have been brought back through outbreeding, I wonder if the same would hold for them.

Got a source for that? It sounds fascinating

Yep, here’s the 1985 study where they tested reciprocal skin grafts across 14 unrelated cheetahs.

Genetics research before easy sequencing was super wild.