CBC⁠49%

Orphaned cheetahs experience their first day back in the wild — and do almost everything wrong ⁠30%

By Vanessa Caldwell⁠0%

4/2/2026, 6:17:26 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.8% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 393 faulty-reasoning hits from 298 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 39.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠30% (15,512 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 70.90% of the article peer group.

It’s the first day back in the wild for cheetahs Lilly and Iris. 
The sisters and their brother were three months old when their mother was killed by lions. 
Too young to survive on their own, they were brought to Ashia Cheetah Conservation in Paarl, South Africa, 55 kilometres east of Cape Town. 
Ashia’s goal was to train the cheetahs — with minimal human contact — and turn them into hunters that could live on their own in the wild. 
The cheetahs built their strength and speed on a 400-metre track on Ashia’s compound, with a motorized lure to mimic live prey. 
After more than a year, it’s time to see how they’ll fare in the real world. 
This clip, from the documentary Cheetah: Fast and Wild, follows Lilly and Iris as they put what they’ve learned to the test. 
They’re released into a fenced-off area of Botlierskop Private Game Reserve (their brother was taken to another location). 
But even with their training, they don’t yet know which animals are prey and which ones they should avoid. 
They pursue a two-tonne rhino (definitely not prey) and are chased by zebras — it’s clear the cheetahs still have lots to learn. 
“These two cats did almost everything wrong,” says Anthony Morgan, co-host of The Nature of Things. 
But it’s all part of the process. 
Staff from Ashia will monitor the cheetahs, and if they go five days without a successful hunt, they’ll receive a supplemental meal. 
When they can hunt for three months without help, Ashia will find them a permanent home. 
Learn more in Cheetah: Fast and Wild, a documentary from The Nature of Things, now streaming on CBC Gem and YouTube. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 7.7%Vanessa Caldwell: 2.9%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias7.7%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.1%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 5.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 4.0%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic5.4%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 1.1%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 5.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 1.0%Hindsight Bias5.4%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 2.2%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 11.7%Vanessa Caldwell: 3.1%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect11.7%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.4%CBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 16.8%Vanessa Caldwell: 3.6%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias16.8%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 2.6%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 24.8%Vanessa Caldwell: 10.3%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias24.8%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 1.1%CBC: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 1.1%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.9%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.5%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.2%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 7.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.4%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect7.4%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 5.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 2.8%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority5.4%This article: 6.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 1.4%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma6.4%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.2%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.7%Vanessa Caldwell: 7.6%CBC: 4.8%Hasty Generalization7.7%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 3.6%CBC: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 2.3%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.5%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question2.3%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.6%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.5%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.3%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.7%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 3.4%CBC: 3.3%Anecdotal5.4%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 2.6%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.7%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.7%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 5.4%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.6%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection5.4%This article: 13.1%Vanessa Caldwell: 4.2%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice13.1%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.7%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Vanessa Caldwell: 3.2%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…7.0%

298 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers27%attributed speech217writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageAshia Cheetah Conservation • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageAnthony Morgan • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageAshia Cheetah Conservation • 22 words • 0.0% coverageAshia Cheetah Conservation • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Anthony Morgan

100%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words20% of attributed speech57% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Anthony Morgan: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-18.0 ptsWriter: 18.0%Anthony Morgan: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.7 ptsWriter: 9.7%Anthony Morgan: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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