00:00:02female cheetah has discovered that her
00:00:04cubs are growing ever more independent
00:00:07she calls for them but they’ve already
00:00:11gone out exploring and they’ve
00:00:14discovered a wounded gemsbok that may
00:00:16have escaped from a lion its weak but
00:00:19something tells them they’re still out
00:00:22of their league
00:00:27they’re intrigued but they don’t know
00:00:30what to do its horns could be lethal
00:00:33it’s too big even for their mother to
00:00:36tackle eventually their curiosity
00:00:44satisfied a he their mother and leave
00:00:47the gemsbok to its fate young male
00:00:52cheetahs like these often team up
00:00:54together
00:00:55where’s female cheetahs live solitary
00:00:57lives unless they have Cubs these two
00:01:03are probably brothers and partners for
00:01:05life they hunt go courting and today
00:01:09they’re exploring together the cheetah
00:01:16cubs have gone out hunting without their
00:01:18mother
00:01:18and have come across a herd of gemsbok
00:01:20and the hunt is on
00:01:34they’ve caught a cap but they’re about
00:01:37to find out that like their own mother
00:01:40the calf’s mother is fierce when her
00:01:42offspring are threatened
00:01:54she’s desperate to free her youngster
00:01:56from the cheetahs strangling bite
00:02:07the calves seems none the worse for its
00:02:09adventure
00:02:13and its mother turned to retention again
00:02:17to the Cheetahs
00:02:22the CAF had a lucky escape but the
00:02:25cheetahs have been fortunate as well
00:02:27gemsbok horns are deadly weapons the cow
00:02:31could so easily have killed them when
00:02:37the cheetah cubs are about 18 months old
00:02:40they’re old enough to leave their mother
00:02:42and to seek their own fortunes once they
00:02:46go she may never see them again
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