Cheetahs hunting - BBC wildlife

[sunkadam]

damn nature u scary!

[wanker696cum]

baby wilderbeast should play footy (Y) GREAT SIDE-STEP THEREE!!

[dogsrule98]

National geographic is better than bbc wildlife:P

[iamlumin]

@dogsrule98 Actually there are now several. In fact, just off the top of my head there was one that happened not long ago at a Zoo in Belguim when a woman without authorization entered their enclosure and was mauled to death.

[wuerp]

LOOK THAT SON BITCH GO !

IF THAT THING COME BY MY HOUSE, I’LL KILL IT!

DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!

[GEORGEBUSHISAKUNT]

@wuerp Grow up!!

[wuerp]

@GEORGEBUSHISAKUNT why?

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[TheVirtualranger]

Keep to the facts gentlemen

[HDCYTT]

id beat a cheetah easily

[Sunderland4745]

@HDCYTT

I don't think easily. I'm bigger and much stronger than a house cat but their claws and bite can hurt. Of course it would take barley any effort to kill a house cat, a cheetah is just like that except WAY bigger. I wouldn't want to go head to head with one. The felines are probably the best predators on land.

[ToubabExotics]

Actually, while there is no recorded episode of a cheetah biting a human, Jeedo31 is entirely wrong (and a bit vulgar.) Using "a little smack" with any wild animal is inappropriate. A PASSIVE correction may be tolerated, but striking a wild animal creates an adversarial circumstance. Solitary predators don't have much patience for it, as many don't have concepts of Dominant/Submissive. Please, keep your comments to subjects in which you have actual knowledge. That guess was way off.

[iamlumin]

That's untrue. There have been several incidents and most of them in the last couple of years. Of course, with cheetahs being an endangered species and having a passive reputation people tend to take more chances with them. Woman in Florida who runs a sanctuary was mauled and bitten many times. A woman entered a cheetah's cage in Belgium and oh yes, she was bitten and she was "actually" killed.

[SpectreWriter]

You can't even begin to use those incidents in a decidedly abnormal, captive environment. ANY creature, predator or prey, becomes unpredictably dangerous when caged, cornered and stressed like that. But let me clarify: No recorded episode IN THE WILD.

[iamlumin]

Yes, not recorded. However, your post was as follows: "ctually, while there is no recorded episode of a cheetah biting a human," and you did not specify IN THE WILD so I was not using those incidents incorrectly as you were the one who did not specify. You're too busy immersed in your self-agrandizing ideas about how you have more knowledge than others. You don't know what animals, think, how they think, even if they think, why they do or don't do certain things. It's all theory and guesswork.

[SpectreWriter]

Well let's see... while I'm supposedly self-aggrandizing, we'll compare notes. I've lived and worked in Africa and work with wild and in-captivity predators both here and there. I've cared for and raised big cats over more than 35 years. What do you have by which to counter your claim that I don't "know what animals, think, how they think, even if they think, why they do or don't do certain things"? If I didn't, I'd be dead by now, more than a few times over. Check your ego, please.

[iamlumin]

Well let's see, you're actually doing it right now. What do I have to counter? Common sense. Please do not project. It is your ego that needs checking. I make no claims that I am a specialist or that I can actually know what animals thinks, how they think, even if they think, etc. It's plain silly to assume that you can know such a think unless of course you've sat down and had conversations with them and that's unlikely. Surviving around animals doesn't mean you know what and/or how they think.

[SpectreWriter]

You should take up politics. All that empty rhetoric, and you still said nothing to justify your position. Talk about Projecting? You have ZERO experience, while they've been part of my daily living for decades, but you'll tell me what I can or cannot know about them. What's silly is your stubborn insistence in lack of knowledge. Reminds me of apprentices who swear ya can't tell what gender, age, and when the last meal of a hawk was from a block away. Unlike you though, they eventually learn

[iamlumin]

Your self-agrandizing, egotistical exhibition continues. There's a difference between knowing about things & actually "knowing" something. First of all you know nothing of my experience yet act as though you do. The same basic approach you apply when you say you know what animals think, if they think, how they think, very silly! Knowing an animals gender or what they eat is a far cry from know what they think, how they think or even if they think at all. Of course, you "think" you know it all!

[keinaan12345]

@iamlumin There are no documented cases of a cheetah killing a human. I doubt that story is true.

[TheyCallMeHess]

Hell no! Domesticating Cheetahs would just make them weak (like a domesticated dog or cat) and I'm pretty sure before the Egyptians (I believe it was) domesticated a large sum of Cheetahs (thousands of years ago) they were more capable hunters. We need to save their habitat and watch them run free!

[apharot]

They were used by kings in the middle east as little as 100 years ago. They use to keep thousands of them.

[jeedo31]

They would be the perfect sized exotic pet actually. If they do something wrong im sure you could give it a litle smack and it would listen. On the other hand other cats like say lions having them as an exotic pet i think would be stupid. they'd rip off your motherfucking arm if they wanted to :D

[xXxCherilynxXx]

They're they're taller an average German Shepherd and they have larger canines, they'll still give you a good bite or cat whack if they feel threatened.

[KlausDigestive]

When i grow up i will help these animals. Every kind of animal i can help. Even if i have to die to help them.

[BigCasualtyFan]

good to see how Duma survived with Shakira's help

[AshRosen88]

Spoilers.

Later on in the series, Toto ends up dying. It's sad, you really get attached to these animals and you wish you could help them, but that's nature. And I think the emotional attachment that this show provides to its viewers is a great service to animals who have no voice of their own, and allows them to be an ambassador of their species to humans who might otherwise not understand or care.

[dartz000]

Yeah, what's stupid is that it's the people who killed Toto. They say that it's wrong to help a cheetah in the wild, but I guess it's okay to kill one.

[N10100]

@AshRosen88

TOTO DIED???

awww...thats so sad :(

[00tonytone]

@N10100 toto dies, but there was another mother cheetah that was successfull in raising 4 which was a remarkable feat .

[3709280]

@AshRosen88 aww how did it die?

[OfficialPichu]

@AshRosen88 no toto cant die i love him =(

[jualkyn]

@AshRosen88 how did toto die?

[MohawkMasters]

@AshRosen88 Where did you watch it?

[VeteranTRAGIC]

@AshRosen88 ASSHOLE!

[Kailys3]

Beautiful, but why would you name the elegant cheetah a dumb-sounded name like 'toto' heh

[sololosthero001]

toto translates into courage

[QuanChiSpirit]

yea in what language? If you're speaking about kisawhili(the local language) then toto means child.

[whiic]

I condone hunting of certain "endangered" species because list of endangered species updates slowly to population changes. Population of endangered species may suddenly sky-rocket, and their population may be highly localized, resulting in total ecocatastrophes. Take for example Great Cormorants in Northern Europe coastal regions. They are a plague. They eat, they shit and their shit is toxic. They move to an uninhabited island, they destroy it and then leave it.

[whiic]

Before, we had an island with several dozens of species of birds, even rare ones. Then we have thousand Great Cormorants shitting. Then they leave. We have an island filled with shit, uninhabited, uninhabitable by either vegetation or any species of birds.

Also, we have reportings of rare squirrel canceling important highway projects, and other odd stuff. Basically hippies carrying squirrel shit into places they want to protect.

[jimmytwotimez]

Cheetahs are the greatest...really is there any better animal? I want one so bad

[DJ80s]

If only they could be pets lol. They're my favorite animal.

[apharot]

Not that I'm condoning this, but the interesting thing about Cheetahs is that theya re the least aggressive of the big cats, and the most trainable. They use to be domesticated and used by royalty for hunting. That is also what contributed so greatly to their population before.

[312guiltys]

y man i kno - id actually be really interested in any info people can give on WHY it is that cheetah r so non-aggressive - iv noticed that theyr even more sociable than the common house cat n not at all dangerous when hand reared - im not saying i condone keeping cheetahs in captivity only that id be interested in learning what it is about them that seperates them from their larger n smaller feline cousins

[xXxCherilynxXx]

They're non aggressive because if they get into a fight with a leopard or lion and got away they'd be so damaged they wouldn't be able to run down prey and they'd starve. They can't afford to fight and get damaged, hence the timid nature.

[312guiltys]

caracals have that same problem with larger animals - but caracals are still fucking vicious little bastards in captivity - that cant be the reason for cheetahs' passivity

[hungryallday]

lol you sound just like a episode of wild kingdom that i watched

[xXxCherilynxXx]

HAHAHA thankyou!!! XD

[xXxCherilynxXx]

Completely agree!! The Greatest, most graceful and most beautiful animal in the world!!!

[youngtan88]

ugh, why is jamie theakston narrating these? he's probably just reading it off a script... he has no idea what he's really talking about - let the experts (i.e. the big cat team) do the talking!

[sokrno]

very good hunting

[mkopbcgfd]

Shes Honeys doter - shel make it...

[youngtan88]

no, honey was toto's mum - duma and her mum were neighbours with honey and toto

[105km]

ok thanks for the info! :)