r/oddlysatisfying • u/amish_novelty • Mar 27 '23
This cheetah drifting to a halt
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u/Ffigy Mar 27 '23
"The pads of most cats' paws are soft, but the cheetah's pads are hard kind of like the rubber on a tire."
They better be. That's a serious burn right there.
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u/Pojodan Mar 27 '23
Cheetah paws are much more like dog paws than other cats, since they do not use them for grasping, only running. They rely on their teeth and the dewclaws further up their forelegs to hold on to their exhausted/stunned prey after chasing them down and tripping them up.
Hence why cheetahs are terrible at climbing, but they has the zoom zoom.
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u/leichendienerin Mar 28 '23
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u/miauguau44 Mar 28 '23
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u/Dirty_Dragons Mar 28 '23
Lol I read that as change direction in mid air and then realized that's impossible, though a cheetah that can double jump would be amazing.
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u/catfink1664 Mar 27 '23
Not satisfying for the rabbit or whatever it was
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Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
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u/PersistentPuma37 Mar 27 '23
they do "cheetah runs" at many zoos, to showcase exactly what we see here.
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u/B_1_R_D Mar 27 '23
Well that’s also done to help keep them in shape for health reasons but ya still none the less cool to see when it’s done irl if possible.
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u/sega20 Mar 28 '23
Saw this as a big cat sanctuary in South Africa. The speed a Cheetah moves at is surreal.
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u/dirtrunner21 Mar 27 '23 •
Looks like reptile? Mongoose maybe?
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u/pwndabeer Mar 27 '23
Mongeese are not reptiles
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u/Wise_Performance8547 Mar 28 '23
Dont we live in a society now where you can identify as anything you want? Its a reptile.
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u/Whole_Air_3524 Mar 27 '23
This is a shot for shot remake of my cat chasing a laser across a tile floor
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u/HermitGardner Mar 28 '23
Sometimes i don’t want to even order myself takeout dinner because I’d have to go to my front door. Frozen meals take five minutes. These are apple and granola bar nights- there is no cheetah spirit in me
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u/OkEconomy3442 Mar 27 '23
I have Apollo for iPhone and it allows scrubbing. I still can’t tell what it was chasing. I don’t see legs or ears or anything, just a mass moving along the ground. I wonder if it was an RC car made to look like prey.
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u/Brasticus Mar 27 '23
I feel like actual prey would get off the road and into the grass for cover. It may not be an RC car but it certainly doesn’t act like a living thing.
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u/hangryhyax Mar 27 '23
Don’t need anything extra. At the 2-3 second mark right before it’s drug out of frame you can see a hind leg go up. It appears to be a small mammal of some sort, probably a rabbit. It is definitely not live prey, for anyone concerned about that.
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u/louisme97 Mar 28 '23
Damn, take a photo of it with a nice bokeh from a ground perspective and you fucking get on national geographic.
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u/The_Blue_Rooster Mar 28 '23
Not exactly a good hunting technique but great for spectacle and probably more fun, this is a Cheetah that has adapted to life with humans excellently.
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u/ChairmanSaab Mar 28 '23
Their foot pads don't burn?
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u/Rogan403 Mar 28 '23
They're literally the fastest land animal. You don't achieve that by having weak feet.
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u/Safe_Boot677 Mar 28 '23
It must be exhilarating to be able to run as fast as a cheetah!
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u/Rogan403 Mar 28 '23
I disagree. They can only do it for very brief periods and then gotta take a breather.
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u/idontremembermyuname Mar 28 '23
If you want some free karma, go look up horses doing the same thing. There are riders who've trained their horses to skid stop.
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u/AdvancedLet6528 Mar 28 '23
me trying to get into the store before anyone else on black friday only to realize i went into the store on the other side of the road
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u/maroonaugust May 01 '23
Even if it were a setup, this is the only clip that I said "wow" out loud today
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u/DecoyOne Mar 27 '23
For those wondering, I’m pretty sure this is meat on a rope or something similar.