Author: Wen/Yu Zi Period
In the biological chain, we all know that each organism has a "natural enemy", of course, the creature at the top of the biological chain may not be, but compete with each other to lead to the final weakening (no direct natural enemy). According to the latest scientific report, there was a situation recently in the Masai Mara National Wildlife Refuge in Kenya, that is, a small gazelle was "caught" by a cheetah in the short moment of birth, really a "short-lived" gazelle, and it was killed in a few seconds, which did come faster and more suddenly. The main reason is that this newborn "gazelle" mistakenly recognized his mother, thinking that the cheetah was his mother.
According to scientific reports, newborn gazelles mistakenly believe that an adult cheetah is its mother and kiss it. At this time, the cheetah did not directly "kill", but produced "teasing", which is equivalent to staying. But soon the gazelle felt something was wrong and wanted to flee, but it was too late. In the early days, the gazelle felt like itself was "caring" from the cheetah, after which the cheetah slid its claws on the fawn and then instantly bit the gazelle's neck, and there was no chance of escape at this time, and the wildlife photographer and safari guide Federico Veronesi captured the moment.
This can be said to be very surprising, for the newborn "gazelle", the cheetah seems to be very kind to the fawn, but our idea of it is wrong, it is only "tasting" the next second of the prey, so this move is still relatively rare among cheetahs. Generally speaking, encountering their prey is violently controlled, and this time the cheetah's initial performance seems to be very "gentle", which may also be the instinctive reaction of the creature, as a newborn "gazelle", it has a maternal effect. Of course, in the end, the cheetah did not let go of the hunt for the creature, or put it in its own mouth, let's understand the basic situation of the "gazelle".
The global distribution of "gazelles" is not very large, most live in Africa, a few live in Asia. The creature is a very agile animal, able to run down at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, and many people may ask the cheetah to get its prey so easily, and it is really impossible to see. Of course, this target of the newborn "gazelle" is still not cultivated by the mother. According to scientific reports, there is a lot of controversy about the classification of the genus Gazelle, some experts believe that there are only 12 species of gazelle, while some experts believe that there are dozens of species of gazelle, most experts believe that there are 16 species of gazelle, so there is no definition in science.
Of course, for many gazelles, there are also extinct or endangered species, so most of the creatures are also protected animals, and gazelles are mammals that like to eat low plants, which is a basic situation of it. For the cheetah, the creature is a very widely distributed creature, and the strength is also very amazing, faster than the speed of the gazelle pump, the cheetah can maintain a stable maximum speed of about 100 km / h on the flat ground, comparable to the "Guinness World Record" in the animal kingdom, so even the adult gazelle may not be able to escape the capture from the cheetah, the short distance is not an opponent at all, not to mention the newborn "gazelle" above, obviously not close to the escape.
In nature, cheetahs are often defeated by larger cats, such as lions, or may be bitten to death by lions. Therefore, the natural enemies of cheetahs are also some powerful animals, and if the leopard cubs face their own natural enemies, the survival rate is also very low, two-thirds of the young leopards are bitten by lion hyenas before the age of one or starved to death due to insufficient food, so survival is relatively difficult, in the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (IUCN) 2015 Red List of Threatened Species, it is also marked as "vulnerable (VU)", which is the basic situation.