Cheetah: Fatal Instinct
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A Cheetah Family
A cheetah family enjoy the evening sun - soon they will look for a safe place to sleep. The night is the time of lions, leopards and hyenas.
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Cheetah Siblings
When they are young, cheetahs stay together but soon they will become elegant solitary hunters.
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Roaming the Plains
The open plains of the Serengeti are ideal hunting grounds for the cheetah mother, especially if you have many hungry mouths to feed.
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Baby Big Cat
This little cheetah is a few months old - he already survived the most dangerous weeks of his life.
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Tough Life
The life of a young cheetah is dangerous - often other predators kill the cubs of their competitors.
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Young Cheetah
Camouflage at its best - a young cheetah female on her way to motherhood.
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No Fear Here
A friendly neighbor - cheetahs don't have to fear giraffes but buffalos can be a real threat to the young cats.
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A Mother's Protection
The young cheetah with her four cubs. They are born blind and helpless and need the protection of their mother.
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Gazelle Takedown
Female cheetahs hunt gazelles most of the time. Only cheetah brothers who hunt in a group choose bigger prey.
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Snuggles With Mom
The young cheetah with her four cubs. They are born blind and helpless and need the protection of their mother.
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Unique Transportation
If a lair is discovered by other predators cheetah mothers carry their young to a safe hiding place nearby.
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A Deadly Race
Cheetahs are the fastest land animals but gazelles are very agile. So the winner in the race of life and death is open.
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A Fresh Feast
The cheetah siblings have survived and their young mother did a good job.
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A Little Lion
Some lionesses live a solitary life instead of being under protection of a pride. Their cubs only seldom survive.
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Vicious Lion
Male lions not only kill cheetah cubs they also kill young of their own kind so that they can mate with the mother.
