Among cats, cats such as tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars, snow leopards, and cheetahs are called big cats, referred to as big cats, and cheetahs are considered to be the weakest big cats. Recently in the South African Wild Earth Zoo, photographer Bussani photographed: a cheetah drinking water by the river, but did not know that a large crocodile has long been ambushed in the mud, when the cheetah drinks water, the big crocodile bites the neck, quickly dragged to the middle of the river, making it difficult for the cheetah to escape.
According to reports: this big crocodile is close to more than four meters, hidden in the silt, which is a good camouflage for crocodiles, other animals are difficult to find the crocodile's tracks, crocodiles just need to wait for attack. When the young cheetah came to the river, not realizing the threat at all, the big crocodile bit the cheetah's neck and quickly dragged the cheetah to the crocodile territory, while the cheetah in the water, even less powerful to get rid of the crocodile, soon did not move, was preyed by the crocodile.
Bussani said: "This should be a family of cheetahs, there are several cheetahs on the shore, these cheetahs are sub-adult cheetahs. Although the number of cheetahs is large, but the big crocodile moves too quickly, there is no time for other cheetahs, quickly drag the cheetahs into the river, other cheetahs can only stand by the river, too late to rescue, it is difficult to help the same kind of people to break free of the crocodile.
In the food chain, crocodiles are difficult to compete with big cats, always preyed on by tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars and other big cats, but crocodiles are still a fierce predator, especially adult crocodiles, if the size is close to 5 meters, big cats do not dare to easily prey on crocodiles.
Cheetah is considered to be the weakest big cat, because cheetah in order to pursue speed advantages, the size is very running, but it is not suitable for close combat, compared to other big cats, cheetah teeth are relatively small, cheetah hunting skills are less, less lethality, it is difficult to fight against crocodiles this ferocious predator.
In the food chain of cheetahs, they do not have the ability to kill large herbivores, generally feeding on small and medium-sized ungulates, including Thomson gazelles, Gurdjiert's gazelles, impala, small wildebeests, etc., while in the African savannah animal world, the biggest threat to cheetahs is the lion and hyena two major carnivorous groups, two-thirds of cheetah cubs before the age of one year by lion hyenas etc. or starved to death due to lack of food, the survival rate of cheetah cubs is very low.
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