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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos

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Measurements and weights taken from the book Wild Cats of the World (Mel Sunquist and Fiona Sunquist)

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This photo is absolutely both cute and amazing ! The speed learning.

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The gazelle stumbled at the worst moment...

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First time I see a cheetah running after a warthog, and not a cub warthog ! Not a piglet ! The race goes too fast for the camera man, but it's a good one !

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Mother and sons, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

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Cheetah chasing an eland antelope


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Careful ! Look at behind you...

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( This post was last modified: 11-25-2019, 09:42 PM by BorneanTiger )

(11-13-2019, 03:13 AM)Spalea Wrote: Careful ! Look at behind you...


I had sympathy for the cheetah because of what lions and other predators do to them: 




But after seeing this, a cheetah eating a gazelle while it's still alive, one would think that that's just how predators like big cats are, they're all brutal in some way or the other:



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@BorneanTiger :

About #294: I only knew the first video you show through separate parts, but not in its full totality. Thanks for sharing !

As concerns the second one, we must consider that a male impala is a very big prey for a lone cheetah. But you know, in my opinion I don't know consider this cheetah eating his prey alive as being more ferocious than this impala before his death eating mercilessly the green grass of the savannah. In other words predators, big cats in this case, aren't aware at all of the pain they inflict... Look at the cheetah's face, do you see any clue of cruelty ? No. Clearly he hasn't the ability to kill swiftly his prey, thus he starts to eat him alive because at every instant a lion or a hyena could come to steal his prey. He is stressed, lucky for him the rain prevents him to be more easily detected by other predators.

This male cheetah can be ferocious against an other male in case of a territory conflict or because a female cheetah in oestrus. Like the male leopards, tigers and so on.

Among the big cats, male lions, living in prides, have perhaps for the same reasons more often the opportunity "to be ferocious". Are they fully conscious of that or is it our subjectivity which depicts them as ferocious ? Life in wild is cruel, an impala was grazing the grass and five minutes after he breathed his last. Life in wild is more simple, a male impala in full health is able to run at 80 km/h, but an instant after he doesn't exist more.

But we, as being the most conscious creatures of the Earth, are we ferocious ? The answer is in the question...

And life goes on...
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Cheetah family resting...

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Hunting a big prey...

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Fabrizio Bigniotti: " Going tomorrow to mara for a month to meet some of these friends. This is a repost of a loner cheetah. "

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More protected under the mother's neck... From Djuma Private Game Reserve.

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