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Cheetah Resting

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Published: Dec 11, 2014

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africa cheetah wildlife

Description

Female cheetah and cubs resting after hunting. Phinda Vlei, KZN.

One of the greatest thrills in game viewing is to see cheetah - the sleekest, fastest, most elegant wild cat in the world, silent and deadly, but utterly enchanting and engrossing to watch. Let me say at the outset, that this tale of a female cheetah and her two cubs stalking impala has a happy ending for the impala, she misses her kill. Thus, no need to worry about dead animals here.
We were on a game drive from Phinda Vlei Lodge, pronounced "pinda fly"==> http://www.andbeyond.com/phinda-vlei-lodge/ , one evening when we spotted a young female cheetah and her two cubs emerging from a bush lair. We knew she had been there all day, as we had seen her briefly in the very early morning when we had passed this way. Our Ranger, Dumi, thought that she had probably had a kill the day before, and she had spent that night and this day sleeping and guarding her two cubs. Normally, she would not have needed to hunt for prey for

Image size

5760x3840px 3.21 MB

Make

Canon

Model

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Shutter Speed

1/45 second

Aperture

F/5.6

Focal Length

285 mm

ISO Speed

3200

Date Taken

Nov 9, 2014, 3:43:59 PM

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I so admire their coats.

(never liked the look taken, and used by humans; but always adored it on the animal. Where it belongs.

! )