About 10,000 years ago, cheetahs experienced a population bottleneck following the last ice-age.

The site contains the earliest known evidence of shellfish consumption and may have saved humanity once before, during a climate-induced population bottleneck some 70,000 years earlier.

According to a popular theory, these traditions reduced the danger of inbreeding and resulting population bottleneck in small and isolated settlements.

Further deductions can sometimes be inferred from an observed population bottleneck.

It has since recolonized much of its historic range, but has a population bottleneck.