Cheetah Conservation Fund

Adrienne first began working with cheetahs in 2001.

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Zoo based in Namibia at the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

She spent more than three years there working to set up a genome resource bank for cheetahs, a long-term warehouse storing biomedical samples, including sperm.

And shortly after I finished my postdoc in 2005, we started a large-scale study trying to understand the influence of age on female cheetah reproduction.

Mm-hmm.

And the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

So those groups all collaborated, and we'll talk more about the Cheetah Conservation Fund at the end of the podcast.

But yeah, they basically figured out that the studies, there's five genes that regulate to heart and muscle contractions, and I can put them on the show notes.

I won't read them all because they're just shortened, an acronyms for something.

Yes, Chris.

I'm really excited about this week's conservation organization.

I selected the Cheetah Conservation Fund.