Cheetahs Play With A Young Impala

Added on February 1st, 2011 by cpnichol | Report Post
Tags:Nature, WTF

But in a nice way.

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.

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TGGeko (#2562)

13 years ago

This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen all day.

PatientZed (#48741)

13 years ago

And then one day they chased it down mercilessly and ate it.

Because they’re a bunch of cheetahs.

DMYTRIW WDS (#16438)

13 years ago

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.

annihilist (#36922)

13 years ago

It’s like African Fox and the Hound, with a much bigger letdown at the end, though.

mld (#3619)

13 years ago

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

casemods UID# 667 (#17107)

13 years ago

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

Demon (#2630)

13 years ago

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.

casemods UID# 667 (#17107)

Reply to Demon

13 years ago

No shit.

PatientZed (#48741)

Reply to Demon

13 years ago

Never saw that coming. Especially with one of them licking the creature’s neck.

cpnichol (#1076)

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Reply to PatientZed

13 years ago

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.

HoChunk (#5604)

13 years ago

Who says there’s no cruelty in nature?

bstaples (#6783)

13 years ago

Even if the pics were real, notice how freaked the hell out it looks?

nyoki (#3444)

13 years ago

Nature and evolution are, just are.

Kithinji (#)

10 years ago

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.