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catbyte

(34,423 posts) Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:17 PM Oct 2019

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Amazing fast running 😍

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Amazing fast running 😍 (Original Post) catbyte Oct 2019 OP

Cheetahs are all just legs and lungs, aren't they ? Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2019 #1

Phenomenal! Anon-C Oct 2019 #2

Head never moves...born to run, but in a straight line...when prey zig zogs, they throw Karadeniz Oct 2019 #3

Not shown in the video but just ahead of the cheetah is me running for my life. Kaleva Oct 2019 #4

I learned about them as a kid 2naSalit Oct 2019 #5

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

1. Cheetahs are all just legs and lungs, aren't they ?

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 07:24 PM

Oct 2019

If you want to watch them run in real time you can't blink.

Anon-C

(3,430 posts)

2. Phenomenal!

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 07:55 PM

Oct 2019

Karadeniz

(22,557 posts)

3. Head never moves...born to run, but in a straight line...when prey zig zogs, they throw

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2019, 09:17 PM

Oct 2019

In the towel. Saw on t.v.!

Kaleva

(36,327 posts)

4. Not shown in the video but just ahead of the cheetah is me running for my life.

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Sun Oct 20, 2019, 10:00 PM

Oct 2019

2naSalit

(86,747 posts)

5. I learned about them as a kid

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Mon Oct 21, 2019, 01:16 AM

Oct 2019

and I was fascinated. I think they can run at about 65mph or something near that. But, as mammals, they are not configured to do that for great lengths of time. They run in spurts that only last a few minutes.

Funny thing about speed, it diminishes maneuverability, if the target veers off their trajectory, they can't adjust at such speeds. It's that way for peregrine falcons, they fly so fast - up to 200mph - that they can't swerve when their prey do. Pigeons can just flip over in flight and avoid a strike from a falcon.

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