Cheetah attacks gazelle

"This classic video of a cheetah hunting down gazelles is an edge-of-your-seat, intense story about the power that can be packed into a single tetrapod's body. And it even has an unexpected twist ending."

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Yogisays...

Cheetahs are the reason I like the theory of Persistence Hunting as a way humans evolved into what we are today. Cheetahs very fast but only in short bursts and then they get very tired because of the way their body works...like a piston pumping air in and out of their lungs, makes them tired and they can't regulate their breathing like a human can running on two feet without their body crushing their lungs.

Which means that if we wanted to...we could catch a cheetah eventually by tying it out over a very long distance.

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