African Wildlife prog on BBC1
Discussion
simpo two said:
Cheetahs are supposed to be the fastest land animal, but whenever I see them on wildlife progs chasing things, the thing they're chasing goes just as fast and always gets away 'cos the cheetah runs out of puff.
I think they must have a secret stash of catfood somewhere.
Funny enough they just fed some cubs Cat food,they have reared them from day 1 after finding the dead mother and noticing some movement in the mothers stomach they had to be cut from the womb and hand reared....amazing!
simpo two said:
Ocelot or Scottish Wildcat?
Geoffroys Cat. Fantastic creature - that was the dad. There were also two gorgeous kittens; I considered breaking the glass and nabbing one
I'm not really interested in Geoffrey's cat. The damn thing keeps coming in our garden and I've tolf Geoff that next time I catch it doing it's business I'll take a shot at it.
I was in Botswana last year and managed to get a weekend in a wildlife park. They has 2 7 year old Cheetah which had been raised from a week old and they took you into the enclosure with them in an open land rover and told you to get out with them!!!! When I got out, the Cheetah wandered over to you and rubbed themselves up against you like domestic cats would and you could stroke them and tickle them behind the ears and they would like your hand. Totally amazing experience which I really want to do again!
tycho said:
I was in Botswana last year and managed to get a weekend in a wildlife park. They has 2 7 year old Cheetah which had been raised from a week old and they took you into the enclosure with them in an open land rover and told you to get out with them!!!! When I got out, the Cheetah wandered over to you and rubbed themselves up against you like domestic cats would and you could stroke them and tickle them behind the ears and they would like your hand. Totally amazing experience which I really want to do again!
You often hear of people wanting to swim with dolphins ,which must be a lovely experience but to get real close to a big cat and be able to see their amazing strength,agility and presence up close must be out of this world.
simpo two said:
Cheetahs are supposed to be the fastest land animal, but whenever I see them on wildlife progs chasing things, the thing they're chasing goes just as fast and always gets away 'cos the cheetah runs out of puff.
I think they must have a secret stash of catfood somewhere.
Heres one out of puff...
Mind you, the Imala it captured was just in front of it! Missed the kill by about 5 minutes.
ZR1cliff said:
I was in Botswana last year and managed to get a weekend in a wildlife park. They has 2 7 year old Cheetah which had been raised from a week old and they took you into the enclosure with them in an open land rover and told you to get out with them!!!! When I got out, the Cheetah wandered over to you and rubbed themselves up against you like domestic cats would and you could stroke them and tickle them behind the ears and they would like your hand. Totally amazing experience which I really want to do again!
You often hear of people wanting to swim with dolphins ,which must be a lovely experience but to get real close to a big cat and be able to see their amazing strength,agility and presence up close must be out of this world.
It was brilliant, they had tried to get them to hunt a donkey by putting it into their enclosure so they could see if they could be released back into the wild but they were more scared of the donkey than it was of them!
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