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Unbelievable Cheetahs Learning New Hunting Skills In Action

cheetah vs a gazelle with a headstart (incredible speed) | Channel Animals

A cheetah spots a Thomson's gazelle, its preferred prey, and leaps into action, quickly accelerating to its top speed of 30 m/s, the highest of any land animal. However, a cheetah can maintain this extreme speed for only 15 s before having to let up. The cheetah is 270 m from the gazelle as it reaches top speed, and the gazelle sees the cheetah at just this instant. With negligible reaction time, the gazelle heads directly away from the cheetah, accelerating at 4.6 m/s^2 for 5.0 s, then running

Gazelle suffers a grisly end at the paws of a family of cheetahs