Cheetahs never prosper.....
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I must say that's a position I've never seen them in. I like the basking in the sun position. She (I'm assuming it's a female, in the wild the males are loners and I know I've seen multiple cheetahs there at once, so I assume they're girls) is relaxing, but still keeping her eye on the safari vehicles.
The distance the cheetahs maintain has always been a frustration for me. I'm a cat person. In truth lions and tigers don't excite me, I like the lesser of the big cats. Leopards, Cheetahs, etc. I want to take fantastic cheetah pictures.. but as far away as they are I'd practically need a 500mm lens, and also a tripod and for the ride vehicle to stop due to the long focal length.
Oh well.. being able to get literally within an arm's length of the snow leopards (which are actually more closely related to cheetahs than leopards, you can see it in their long tails) at my local zoo kind of makes up for it. I just can't get quite as natural looking a background.
The distance the cheetahs maintain has always been a frustration for me. I'm a cat person. In truth lions and tigers don't excite me, I like the lesser of the big cats. Leopards, Cheetahs, etc. I want to take fantastic cheetah pictures.. but as far away as they are I'd practically need a 500mm lens, and also a tripod and for the ride vehicle to stop due to the long focal length.
Oh well.. being able to get literally within an arm's length of the snow leopards (which are actually more closely related to cheetahs than leopards, you can see it in their long tails) at my local zoo kind of makes up for it. I just can't get quite as natural looking a background.
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"Dan" said:
You're probably right about the girls. Except for the hippos/giraffes they usually keep the males/females apart. The hippos are on injectable BC, so that isn't the concern.
The other ones are usually kept in the "other" savannah. The one you will probably be able to see from the DVC Animal Kingdom Villas.
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I may have been completely mistaken. I looked up Cheetahs in wikipedia, for a completely different reason (a reference I want to make in a blog). According to that entry the females tend to be solitary, and the males are sociable and tend to form groups (often brothers sticking together). This is not what I was expecting at all.
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