Cheetah Jumps On Jeep

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[navysealdad]

Cheetah jumps on jeep, face to face in Masai Mara, Kenya

[PapaNew]

Just like my cat who loves to jump up on my car, except bigger...

[sten]

if it was hungry, the guy in the front was dinner

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL, very cute.

This happens often on “Big Cat Diary”....one of the very few shows worth watching on Animal Planet anymore.

[Standing Wolf]

Thank you!

[BerryDingle]

[Yardstick]

lol

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Cheetahs go after small game unless they are in a group. They are a "big cat" but they are not very big and are quite easy to tame. As a fun side note they are the largest cat that purrs.

Leopards are another thing entirely. Big, strong, dangerous and most unfriendly. And it is not uncommon for them to go into towns and hunt. Generally it is dogs that they hunt but they do occasionally take humans.

[EEGator]

Leopards are muscular with huge paws...scary.

[fattigermaster]

In ancient Egypt rich people kept cheetahs as housepets and hunted with them. They have an entirely different psychology than other big cats, and their genetics are interesting, to say the least.

[fso301]

Sure was striking a beautiful pose. Would love to have a mount of her in my den.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I have always wondered if some civilization didn't breed them for pets before vanishing. The cats then went wild but something in them keeps bringing them back to hang around humans.

It would explain a lot of odd things about them.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

You can spot prey better from a high place.

[Liberty Valance]

Look! A cheetah!

[newfreep]

If I was in that jeep, I would be TOTALLY focused on the lion.

Clearly, those people are not concerned with the “little” cat...

[Flick Lives]

In ancient Egypt rich people kept cheetahs as housepets and hunted with them.

I can see that potential. That big cat looked very relaxed up on the vehicle. One would almost envision he wouldn't mind a nice scratch behind his ears.

[Twotone]

Big kitty ping...

[thecodont]

Leopards are muscular with huge paws...scary.

Conservationist Billy Arjan Singh rehabilitated a couple of them.

[wildbill]

Really amazing reactions from both sides of the human/wild animal encounter.

How many of us would have been as cool as the folks in that open safari truck when a live wild meat-eating cheetah jumped to a perch about 3 feet away?

And the cheetah—like most house cats totally oblivious to the humans so close to him—was looking around over the veldt with the eye of a bored hunter.

[wildbill]

Guy I knew had an ocelot for a pet. Ocelots are about 2-3 feet long and weigh about 25-35 pounds or about half the size of a cheetah.

First time I encountered it, the ocelot was crouched on a high fireplace mantle above my head and I heard this growling sound. UH OH.

Later on, he jumped in my lab while I was sitting and put one paw on my forearm. I tried to move it and it was like fighting with Superman. Like all non-domesticated cats, even one this small, it was incredibly strong.

Like other cats, ocelots are adapted for eating meat. They have pointed fangs used to deliver a killing bite, and sharp back teeth that can tear food like scissors. Ocelots do not have teeth appropriate for chewing, so they tear their food to pieces and swallow it whole. Their raspy tongues can clean a bone of every last tasty morsel.