Well the reading was very informative and saddening.
Nature has an excellent article on the cheetah titled The Cheetah in Genetic Peril.
If you are not subscribed to Nature or Scientific American but are curious about the point brought up earlier I found another link that briefly describes the issue.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/end...tah-info10.htm
http://www.cheetah.org/?nd=genetic_diversity
Thanks hazelrunpack for telling me about this problem. I heard about concerns of this nature with animals like wolves many many years ago, the talk of loss of genetic diversity. I never heard about the cheetahs.