Forbidden Love
First they meet.
The relationship quickly evolves to hugging, even in front of Cheetah’s friends.
Finally, they seal the deal with a little necking.
Submitted by – Michel & Christine Denis-Huot
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Kids, don’t play with your food!
Try-before-you-buy meal! Third picture = free taster!
i’d rather say it’s tasting before dinner! :9
“How come she won’t catch her own food?”
“Shhh! She’s adopted!!”
“Mom? Is that true?”
In the last picture of this series, the cats are eating the kid.
Probably a mother cheetah trying to teach her cubs to hunt. And like teenagers everywhere, the cubs are goofing off and not taking it seriously.
Dawn: I disagree. In the second picture, the fawn is showing an affectionate reaction, not a fear reaction. The cheetahs are all very passive in all three pictures. I would say these are all captive animals. It’s fairly common for captive-raised predators to not know what to do with prey animals. There was a recent article about tigers in a Chinese zoo that were terrified of a live chicken that they were given to “hunt”. I also remember reading about a hawk that “adopted” a rabbit it was given as food. Those cheetahs certainly look well fed, and a well fed predator doesn’t hunt.
This is an old (misleading) post that has been around the tubes. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the cheetahs eventually eat the impala. For the full series of pictures taken by Michel & Christine Denis-Huot click on the “submitted by” link under the pictures above to bring you to Biosphoto site.
I disagree, to me, in the second picture it looks more like the poor gazelle has stood up, is unsteady and leaned into the cheetah. The mother will generally chase them until the point of exhaustion and then give it over to the cubs to play with. By that point the poor thing just can’t run anymore. Plus, from the third photo it looks as if there is one mother and two cubs. So my quess is that this is them playing with their food. In the third photo the cheetah’s mouth is open slightly, and it looks like the picture was snapped right before the cheetah bit its neck.
Teenage cheetahs doing home work!!! 2 mins and they give up,
This relationship is going to end badly!
Hey, some humans have pet pigs and still eat bacon. Maybe this cheetah is jusdt keeping the deer as a pet.
“mmm… you taste good, sugar…”
Well, there is a last picture to this series, that was not shown to americans :D I tried to, but i couldnt find it… :/
In case you want to see the last photo (of the impala dashing away):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246886/Pictured-Three-cheetahs-spare-tiny-antelopes-life–play-instead.html
That article is bogus. It got eaten. :)
Yup. The one of it running away is not the end of the series, as that article would have you believe. This is: http://www.biosphoto.com/documents/000/000/916/Biosphoto_916787_ScreenBig.jpg (You can’t see the dead impala, just the cheetahs’ heads.)
Yes it did. Click on the submission link and you’ll see the FULL set of pictures. Like a baby impala could outrun three cheetah…um, nope.
Yes I hate to rain on anyone’s cutesy parade, but what other posters have said is true ~ those cheetahs DO eventually eat the antelope. Even though they look full-grown, those are actually very young cheetahs who just have not fully learned yet how to kill. What actually happens in the rest of the photo series, is that they continue to “play” with it until it eventually triggers their kill reflex, and byebye baby antelope. It takes awhile for it to die, too. =0(
Thanks dorkengorker….you’re just a big ray of sunshine, aren’t you? Not even any attempt to soften the blow. Thanks.
Nature itself doesn’t really ‘soften the blow’ with anything, does it? Nature is nature. Things are killed and eaten, and lots of time those things are babies because they’re easier to catch. :| That’s life. How it’s always been…
Clearly this gazelle has never heard of Dave Ramsey or he would know what to do with a cheetah.
Looks like Twilight…
no squee in this
Pic 1:
“Kinda scronny, but it will do for a light dinner…”
Pic 2:
“I will fool it into a false sense of security…”
Pic 3:
“Better taste it first to see if it’s worth the trouble of killin’ it.”