Apparently they chased a group of impala and this little one got left behind. Rather than eat it as you’d expect they spent about 15 minutes playing with it before it ran off unharmed. I guess they weren’t hungry.
Of course they weren’t going to eat him. In the first pic you can clearly see that they’re baptizing him. He’s now an honorary cheetah. If they ate him they’d be cannibals.
Nope, those are the smartest cheetahs ever and that’s a trojan impala.
Now that the little impala is trained and all Stockholm-syndromed into believing that cheetha’s are friendly, all the cheetah’s have to do is lie back and wait for their ‘little friend’ to bring dinner to THEM.
On a related note, cheetah obesity is predicted to be on the rise
Just for once I thought I’d actually believe something from the Daily Mail, foolishly believing they only make stuff up to suit their political and moral agenda. Nope, they even make stuff up about animals too.
Civilized… in a way. Leopards would have killed it all the same. They kill needlessly. Ha known one leopard to kill four goats. And it carried only one up a tree.
This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen all day.
And then one day they chased it down mercilessly and ate it.
Because they’re a bunch of cheetahs.
Of course they weren’t going to eat him. In the first pic you can clearly see that they’re baptizing him. He’s now an honorary cheetah. If they ate him they’d be cannibals.
It’s like African Fox and the Hound, with a much bigger letdown at the end, though.
Nope, those are the smartest cheetahs ever and that’s a trojan impala.
Now that the little impala is trained and all Stockholm-syndromed into believing that cheetha’s are friendly, all the cheetah’s have to do is lie back and wait for their ‘little friend’ to bring dinner to THEM.
On a related note, cheetah obesity is predicted to be on the rise
LOL funny but fake.
Same expression in each picture
The last one seems legit as he’s running away, then they copied his face from that.
Snuggling with the prey…yah right
Reality`s a bitch.
boingboing.net/2010/02/02/cheetahs-catch-impal.html
the Daily Mail made the story up and the cheetahs actually ate the baby impala after all.
No shit.
Never saw that coming. Especially with one of them licking the creature’s neck.
Just for once I thought I’d actually believe something from the Daily Mail, foolishly believing they only make stuff up to suit their political and moral agenda. Nope, they even make stuff up about animals too.
Lesson learned.
Who says there’s no cruelty in nature?
Even if the pics were real, notice how freaked the hell out it looks?
Nature and evolution are, just are.
Civilized… in a way. Leopards would have killed it all the same. They kill needlessly. Ha known one leopard to kill four goats. And it carried only one up a tree.