The Haunted Huntress
The cheetah is a superbly designed hunter, a streamlined sprinter and the fastest animal on the African plains.
"But even an obliging cheetah
Is a great problem to film hunting, says producer Keith Scholey. "She may stalk her prey from perhaps half a mile away and then chase it yards or more. How do you know where to put a camera?"
To achieve such spectacular speed, muscular power has been forfeited and this great hunter has become hunted itself by more powerful rivals. This film, shot by Owen Newman in Kenya's Masai Mara, follows a mother and hercubs and shows her dilemma: should she hunt for food or stay to protect her cubs? Either way there is danger - from starvation or predation.
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