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Old Apr 28th, 2011, 08:11 PM
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Lebala camp, Botswana - Youtube video of Cheetah killing Red Lechwe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQjvvPmZFo

Here is a Youtube clip from Feb 8, 2011 where the "boys of Lagoon" cheetah coalition take down a big Red lechwe Ram at "old Hippo Pools" just south of Lebala camp.

Enjoy!!!

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Old Apr 28th, 2011, 08:13 PM
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PS: Pretty graphic footage - do not watch, if you think you will be disturbed by it ........

Thank You to Sri Sethuram for the footage .......
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Old Apr 28th, 2011, 08:32 PM
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Good thing they are a coalition of 3 or they would not be dining on such a large male lechwe.

The way they were tussling with the horns, the cheetah could have met a disastrous fate as well. A brutal existence.

Thanks for posting.
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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 03:49 AM
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Quite an event - thanks for the link, Hari. Even if red lechwe are special favorites of mine -- to me, they are the most spectacularly graceful of antelopes.

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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 06:17 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrynTYYKCZ4

Part 2 of the same video ........... please note, this is some real graphic footage .......

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Thanks, Lynn and Don ........ Thanks to my cousin Sri for this awesome footage!!!
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whoa! Very cool natural event.
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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 09:41 AM
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Great videos, Hari.

Looking forward to seeing the boys this November.
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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 09:44 AM
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Cool stuff Hari. What did you shoot this with - DSLR or camcorder?
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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 06:22 PM
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Glad you'll enjoyed the video.

James, I think it's on one of those Sony HD camcorders, although i think there's only so much you can do with the Youtube ....... i think Sri had to do something to change the format for Youtube.
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Old Apr 29th, 2011, 10:59 PM
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Enjoyed the video thanks,
In other news - noticed above that "rizzuto" is now "DonTopaz". So, coming up in the world huh, from Italian to Mexican !!!!

ciao - tom
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 04:05 AM
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Tom,

I'd mentioned elsewhere that I'd been rizzuto for 8 years on Fodor's, but I've been Don Topaz all my life.
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 04:19 AM
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Hari, what kind of camera stabilization did he use? Seemed he was fussing with It quite a bit. He shot the sky quite a bit! ;-)
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 05:31 AM
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That's only when we had to race towards the sighting, Andy. We were parked away to give the animals their own freedom to do their thing .......... he had enough fussing on his hands trying to get me to shut up during the sighting
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 05:38 AM
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hey, I am the *king*of talking during exciting sightings. I start spouting off Cliff Clavin kind of information, which can easily be saved for afterwards.
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 05:57 AM
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My challenge to Andy or to anyone else is to shoot something other than the sky or the floor while in a vehicle driven by Spencer as he's racing to follow (especially) dogs or cats chasing a prey.
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Old Apr 30th, 2011, 06:52 AM
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True, that!!! Hold on to the rails ...............

we will try to get the swimming cheetah video from Little Kwara soon ......
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LOL. The vehicle wasn't even moving!
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It's good "raw" footage, at 12 minutes total its ok for safari freaks . For general viewing I'd cut it down to about 1 min.

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In a moving vehicle, manfrotto superclamp and sturdy ball head would do the trick.
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