Cheetahs vs. Gemsbok | National Geographic

it’s morning in the Kalahari and this
female cheetah has discovered that her
cubs are growing ever more independent
she calls for them but they’ve already
gone out exploring and they’ve
discovered a wounded gemsbok that may
have escaped from the lion its weak but
something tells them still out of their
league
their intrigues but they don’t know what
to do its horns could be lethal it’s too
big even for their mother to tackle
eventually their curiosity satisfied
they heed their mother and leave the
gemsbok to its fate young male cheetahs
like these often team up together
where’s female cheetahs live solitary
lives unless they have cubs these two
are probably brothers and partners for
life they hunt go courting and today
they’re exploring together the cheetah
cubs have gone out hunting without their
mother and have come across a herd of
gemsbok
and the hunt is on
they’ve caught a cap but they’re about
to find out but like their own mother
the calf’s mother is fierce when her
offspring are threatening she’s
desperate to free her youngster from the
cheetahs strangling bite
the cap seems none the worse for its
adventure and its mother turned to
attention again to the Cheetahs
the cab had a lucky escape the cheetahs
have been fortunate as well gemsbok
horns are deadly weapons Macau could so
easily have killed them when the cheetah
cubs are about 18 months old they’re old
enough to leave their mothers to seek
their own fortunes once they go she may
never see them again