• ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Great, now that these pictures are out I can assure you they will be hunted, sold off as pets and soon go extinct. Maybe some of them will be “saved” in a zoo.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, because this is sadly correct. Black market wildlife trading has driven some species to the brink of extinction. We also already have idiots breeding wild cat hybrids, like Bengals and Savannahs, so there’s a well established market already.

    • DevDave@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      Unfortunately doomed even before being officially recorded as their native habitat is being destroyed. Probably for farming or ranching. Just one more line item in the Holocene extinction list.