Kalahari Cheetah Kills
Most visitors to African game parks would love to have the opportunity to see and photograph a kill. Well, we would like to share our experience of photographing cheetahs in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, as there are some important learnings for other visitors.We have been visiting African national parks for over 15 years and we had kredittkort not seen a cheetah in the first few years as we used to rush around the parks reading the visitor comments book at each camp and then race off to the sighting area, only to find nothing! We then changed our strategy to stop and watch any animal just enjoying their behavior – we found mastercard that our predator sightings increased and now when we visit the Kalahari we are rewarded with cheetah sightings every time. Our most exciting Cheetah sightingWe wat kredittkort ched an entire sequence of a cheetah stalking a springbok for two hours and then chasing it, catching it not by tripping it like we see on most TV programs, american express but by jumping onto its back killing it and then feeding on it with her cub, which she had hidden under some bushes during the kill.The whole event took four hours and we were the only witness – even though at least ten cars had driven past us they did not even stop as they visa could see only springboks (and not the cheetah that was hidden behind a tree or sand dune).In addition we have seen cheetahs chasing and killing an ostrich, and chasing Tessebe and wildebeest. The lessons to be learnt here are:Be patient nature has its own time.To obtain these types of unique photographs be prepared to endure uncomfortable circumstances.
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