Jan 30, 2010: Cheetahs Win

xoxoxoBruce · 01-30-2010, 12:10 AM

These three Cheetah brothers easily separated this Impala fawn from the herd. But then, evidently they weren't hungry, because they just played with it a little, then let it go.

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Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw.
'These three brothers have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,' he said. 'On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together.
'At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily.'
These extraordinary scenes followed, as the cheetahs played with the young impala the way a domestic cat might play with a ball of string.
'They knocked it down, but then they lost interest,' said Michel. 'For more than 15 minutes, they remained with the young antelope without doing anything other than licking it or putting their paws on the impala's head.'
Even more extraordinarily, this story has a happy ending - after one tense moment when it looked as though one cheetah would bite the impala on the neck, the youngster ran away.
Let's hope it didn't tell all its friends how nice those big, scarylooking cheetahs really are when you get to know them.

One very lucky Impala.
Maybe it made the boys melancholy, 'cause it smelled like Mama's breath.

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pocketlama · 01-30-2010, 02:26 AM

Mama's breath... hahaha The webs are full of people talking about unity of species and triumph of love over hate. It's just a group of bored cats terrorizing the impala for fun. Nature at it's most mundane, I think.

SPUCK · 01-30-2010, 05:26 AM

OK come on!
It's obvious what happened.
That's actually a Tofuimpala.

TheMercenary · 01-30-2010, 10:22 AM

They were just licking the lollypop before they bit to the chewy middle.

Diaphone Jim · 01-30-2010, 11:00 AM

Even though I'd never heard of "Mr Hanky half way out the door" (see "Coyotesicle 1/23/10), this is obviously the Impala's time.

ajaccio · 01-30-2010, 04:21 PM

Somehow I don't this bodes well for these cheetahs being smart hunters in the future...

ZenGum · 01-30-2010, 07:05 PM

They're not being nice. They're just planning ahead.

Clodfobble · 01-30-2010, 08:40 PM

"I licked it, so it's mine now!"

xoxoxoBruce · 01-30-2010, 11:05 PM

Good one.

Ever notice Impalas have a mouth that looks like a cartoon character?

Pete Zicato · 01-31-2010, 09:49 AM

They should have never gone for Impalas in the first place.

They have a horrible trade-in value.

monster · 01-31-2010, 06:06 PM

It's a cheetah bachelor party -a last fling with someone totally unsuitable and of a different species before he settles down with another cheetah.

(That's not the tongue of the middle one, it's the knob of the one at the back. Jus' sayin')

Gravdigr · 02-01-2010, 04:54 PM

This would've been more fun if I hadn't had to re-save the pic four times to get in under the 175 kb limit. (All that for one word.)

linknoid · 02-02-2010, 06:23 AM

This story made it onto Cute Overload, and several people gave more details in their comments (so none of this information is original to me, I'm just repeating what they said over there). Apparently the cheetahs didn't actually let the impala go, Daily Mail made up the ending. Here's what actually happened after the impala ran away:

http://www.biosphoto.com/consulter/D...rBySpecifique=

http://www.biosphoto.com/consulter/D...rBySpecifique=

(search http://www.biosphoto.com/ for cheetah and impala for the full series)

Clodfobble · 02-02-2010, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Daily Mail made up the ending.

What? No! Say it isn't so!

classicman · 02-02-2010, 08:30 AM

thanks. But just so ya know . . . sometimes ignorance really IS bliss.

01-30-2010, 10:22 AM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	They were just licking the lollypop before they bit to the chewy middle. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-30-2010, 04:21 PM	#6
ajaccio Colloquialist Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 76	--- Somehow I don't this bodes well for these cheetahs being smart hunters in the future...

01-30-2010, 07:05 PM	#7
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	They're not being nice. They're just planning ahead. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-30-2010, 08:40 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	"I licked it, so it's mine now!" __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-30-2010, 11:05 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Good one. Ever notice Impalas have a mouth that looks like a cartoon character? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-30-2010, 02:26 AM	#2
pocketlama I'm just saying... Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4	Mama's breath... hahaha The webs are full of people talking about unity of species and triumph of love over hate. It's just a group of bored cats terrorizing the impala for fun. Nature at it's most mundane, I think.

01-30-2010, 05:26 AM	#3
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	OK come on! It's obvious what happened. That's actually a Tofuimpala.

01-30-2010, 11:00 AM	#5
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	Even though I'd never heard of "Mr Hanky half way out the door" (see "Coyotesicle 1/23/10), this is obviously the Impala's time.

01-31-2010, 09:49 AM	#10
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	They should have never gone for Impalas in the first place. They have a horrible trade-in value. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

01-31-2010, 06:06 PM	#11
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	It's a cheetah bachelor party -a last fling with someone totally unsuitable and of a different species before he settles down with another cheetah. (That's not the tongue of the middle one, it's the knob of the one at the back. Jus' sayin') __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-01-2010, 04:54 PM	#12
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02-02-2010, 06:23 AM	#13
linknoid Superior Inhabitant Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 74	This story made it onto Cute Overload, and several people gave more details in their comments (so none of this information is original to me, I'm just repeating what they said over there). Apparently the cheetahs didn't actually let the impala go, Daily Mail made up the ending. Here's what actually happened after the impala ran away: http://www.biosphoto.com/consulter/D...rBySpecifique= http://www.biosphoto.com/consulter/D...rBySpecifique= (search http://www.biosphoto.com/ for cheetah and impala for the full series)

02-02-2010, 08:30 AM	#15
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	thanks. But just so ya know . . . sometimes ignorance really IS bliss. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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