The cheetah cub is trying to subdue a small gazelle, and the two sides "fight" a little inextricably. Just when the little gazelle finally got rid of the cheetah and planned to leave, he found that there was an even greater crisis waiting for him.
Notice that the little gazelle is wailing on the grass to get rid of the predator, and it is pestering it by a guy with a strange coat: this guy has a white mane with a little black spots on the upper body, and the lower body is black-brown, very similar to a honey badger, if you don't look closely at the two black "tear marks" under the corner of the guy's inner eye along the snout - in fact, this is a cheetah cub.
So from the current stage, why are cheetah cubs so different from the "skin color" of adult cheetahs in their impressions?
One of the more realistic statements is that cheetah cubs are simulating the morphological characteristics of honey badgers to ensure their own safety. Cheetah pups have a thick silvery-gray mantle on their backs (usually disappearing after 3 months), a honey badger-like morphological feature that effectively avoids predation by potential predators.
Moreover, this coat color is similar to the surrounding grass and is not easy to spot. It can be seen that this cheetah cub's hunting skills are very rusty, and it has never been able to subdue the prey under him. The little gazelle took advantage of the predator's departure and quickly got up and wanted to escape. However, as the camera went on, several cheetah cubs appeared one after another. In a desperate situation, is it possible for the little gazelle to escape?
A cheetah also wanted to get close to the little gazelle, but was frightened by the opponent's "head hammer" and turned around and ran. The little gazelle also wanted to continue to resist the cheetah cubs close to him, but the appearance of the cheetah mother made all this impossible.
Adult cheetahs are 170-230 cm long, weigh 21-72 kg, run at a speed of 120 km / h, and have a bite force of about 150 kg (much weaker than large predators such as lions, hyenas, and leopards), which are not something that small gazelles can compete with, as can be seen from the huge gap in size between the two.
It turned out that this little gazelle was a "prop" caught by the cheetah mother to "practice" for the children. Felines such as cheetahs like to catch small prey alive and give them to their children to hone their hunting skills. Seeing that several cubs were not very skilled, the cheetah mother stepped forward and bit the little gazelle by the neck with three strokes and five divisions.
At this moment, another small gazelle quickly ran past the side, the cheetah mother had no time to take care of it, and the four cubs were also there staring and did not know how to catch up, it seems that the cheetah family has to eat less dinner tonight.
These two little gazelles are the prey that the cheetah mother has painstakingly captured, and it has to be said that raising four cubs is very stressful. Normal cheetahs give birth to 2-4 pups, (8 cubs have also been recorded, but this is rare), and young cheetahs need 18 months to get through their fragile juvenile years.
Now the cheetah mother can pull four cheetah cubs up, which is really not easy and powerful. It's just that the cheetah mother and children have meat to eat, and the little gazelle has to face the fate of being caught and eaten if it wants to eat mouthgrass. It seems that even in the animal kingdom, this reincarnation is a technical job. #奇妙的动物第二期 #
