  It is well-known that the Neumann initial-boundary value problem for the
minimal-chemotaxis-logistic system in a 2D bounded smooth domain has no blow-up
for any choice of parameters. Here, for a large class of kinetic terms
including sub-logistic sources, we show that the corresponding 2D Neumann
initial-boundary value problems do not possess any blow-up. This illustrates a
new phenomenon that even a class of sub-logistic sources can prevent blow-up
for the 2D problem, indicating that logistic damping is not the weakest damping
to guarantee uniform-in-time boundedness for the 2D minimal Keller-Segel
chemotaxis model.
