For the first time, video footage has finally caught up to cheetahs running at full speed.
Captured by National Geographic in collaboration with the Cincinnati Zoo, the team is showing the slowest slow-motion video of the fastest land animal (sounds like a bit of an oxymoron) using three high-speed cameras shooting at 1200 frames per second. The more frames per second that are shot, the better the slow motion.
(Image: Vimeo screenshot)
(Image: Vimeo screenshot)
(Image: Vimeo screenshot)
(Image: Vimeo screenshot)
According to the video’s description, five cheetahs were filmed for three days. Filming the fastest land animal running at full speed requires some impressive technology and rigging, according to Pop Photo in an article last month, it took 400 feet of dolly track that held three Canon 1D X DSLRs and a Phantom high-speed video camera. After seeing the footage, which was released last week, Pop Photo called it “everything we’ve hoped for.”
Check it out for yourself (Note: Stay tuned in until the end to see a time-lapse of the equipment set-up):
According to National Geographic, the cheetah going by the name Sarah ran at 61 miles per hour covering 100 meters in 5.95 seconds in June 2012. This broke all records for this distance.
At this speed, “the team captured every nuance of the cat’s movement,” Greg Wilson wrote in his description of the video.
In order to keep ahead of Sarah, National Geographic reported that the cameras on the track moved at 100 miles per hour.
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Bry-Guy82
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:26pmSLOW CHEETAH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7g11ViJnU0
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WhiteFang
Nov. 29, 2012 at 4:09pmThe Cheetah; did it come about by chance or was it designed?
Give praise and humble worship to our Creator for his creative genius. – “You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created”. (Revelation 4:11)
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Luckywon
Nov. 29, 2012 at 4:44pmThe Cheetah’s name is Sarah? Why did they name a male cat Sarah? Is this some kind of gender neutral initiative? Don’t believe me that the cat is male? put the video at full screen and watch again.
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Cesium
Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:01pm@Whitefang Why would the Cheetah come about by chance if evolution occurs? It is not by chance a cheetah uses hemoglobin to carry oxygen just as we do. These are very ancient conserved genetic programs that existed before either us or Cheetahs that were kept throughout much of the animal kingdom.. This doesn’t mean evolutionary algorithms necessitate we receive retractable claws as well. You have a poor understanding of evolution if you think species arise by chance as opposed to shazzam the creator. Do the small grains of sand on the beach sort to the top by chance?
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drphil69
Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:03pm@Whitefang – the govt built it…
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aragona
Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:19pmI believe they filmed 5 cheetas and only one of them is named Sarah.
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L.B.Stephens
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:26pmCesium,
Does the Cheetah exhibit design in it’s capabilities and structure? Or do you think the Cheetah and all other creatures came about through a non-intelligent purposer?
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Chuck Stein
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:05pmThe Cheetah is the only species in its genus — it is a unique type of cat.
BTW: “How do you catch a unique cat” Answer: “You ‘neek up on it.”
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The Giver
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:12pm@Cesium, you try to sound so intelligent, but what is so ancient is God’s hand in creation. The THEORY of evolution requires much imagination. I don’t care if you break it down to a molecular level. If you go to the very beginning, you actually believe that a female and a male version of a species developed from nothing AT THE SAME TIME so they could reproduce and make more of that species. And multiply that by many different species all developing at the same time in perfect sinc so they could mate another of that species. Yet this happened over millions of years. What are the real chances that two of a species would develop at the same time so they could mate? Your THEORY requires more of a stretch of the imagination than that of a loving creator that is a stickler for detail. You see His hand no matter how closely you look. Even at cellular and molecular levels, His majesty is clear. You don’t realize that the more you claim it was evolution, the further from the truth you get. Things rot and deteriorate with time, not develop into spectacular animals like Sarah and the others.
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Cesium
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:34pm@TheGiver do you by any means study or know anything about evolution? You make very ignorant and uneducated assumptions about two different theories to suit your desire. 1 Origin of life 2 evolution. If you we’re correct there would be no extant examples of asexual reproduction or animals that can switch genders. Here is one example http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070419-sex-lizards.html There are on going studies looking into the origins of gender. You just conclude with the easy cop out feel good answer “bible,” but realty doesn’t have to agree with you and I don’t either. My graduate degree in a related field by your view suggests I have spent the last six years imagining things. I have seen stacks of evidence that show evolution to be highly plausible and no evidence that woman was made by a man’s bone. in the womb, female is the default gender until male genes are activated. Only the bible suggests male is first.
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Blacktooth
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:43pmThe Giver,
You nailed it about Cesium. He is trying to intimidate us by sounding intelligent but is missing the mark of logical thought. Cesium, show us a item, any item of a inanimate thing, or a living thing that was not designed, then made by a intelligent creator. Even a simple paper clip was designed by a intelligent mind to serve a particular purpose. How much more a tiny atom or a human hand. Did evolution do it or was it engineered?
And if these things were engineered, then who engineered and created them?
Logic!
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GenOptimus
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:51pmWhere there is design there is a DESIGNER!! Simple logic that only a idiot would miss or a pervert would reject just to make their “life style” choices convenient.
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The Giver
Nov. 30, 2012 at 12:23amThanks Blacktooth!
@Cesium, You do know that it is the male X and Y chromosomes that determines the sex of the child, right? The default girl gene you speak of is the X chromosome that the female egg provides. Women don’t determine the sex of the child, the MAN does. God did put the man first.
I’ve trained in the sciences as a nurse. The more I looked into the miracle that is the human body, the more I realized there is a Creator. That did not come after six years but 23 years. Nothing is a waste of time. You are where you need to be. We don’t have to agree, but realize that our earthly knowledge is nothing to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Take one year to read the Bible (half hour a day), then you will know all those things you are trying to find out. Try the One Year Bible NIV for starters if you dare! Goodnight.
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kadster01
Nov. 30, 2012 at 8:14am@BLACKTOOTH
Perhaps your argument would be more effective if you remembered the grade-school lesson that “an,” not “a” precedes any word beginning with a vowel. That’s not evolution, it’s education.
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Blacktooth
Nov. 30, 2012 at 4:26pmkadster01,
Thank you for the instruction, I will try to do better in the future.
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davidwjohnson
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:10pmWow, I didn’t know F.E.M.A. had a promotional commercial!
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bluegrandma52
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:04pmSarah is literally “poetry in motion”, simply gorgeous.
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banjarmon
Nov. 30, 2012 at 12:17amBoth of them!!!!
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SecretAmerican
Nov. 29, 2012 at 2:46pmAtheists and leftists will tell you their iPhone was “created” and then in the same breath tell you that those cheetahs were NOT created. They just popped out of thin air.
Tells you and I just how STUPID they really are.
Proof of God is right in front of you and I, each and every second of the day.
Excellent film and unmistakable PROOF of a Creator (God… for those of you in Rio Linda).
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cosette
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:30pmExcellent point. It escapes me too. How can a person hold the creation is such high regard and dismiss the Creator?
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bobad
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:48pmWhile the cat’s legs are pumping at 60mph, her head hardly moves. It’s like she has a “steady cam” movie makers use to take helicopter shots.
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churchlady
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:00pmI noticed that too! So smooth and it barely moves. Amazing!
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grayling646
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:22pmMy wife does the same thing when K Mart has a Blue Light Special. Something about females, I guess.
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superpatriot2
Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:39pmFirst thing I noticed was her head. Just like the gun on an Abrams M1A1 Tank traversing uneven terrain. Dead on target at all times and no computer involved, except the one God gave her.
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RightThinking1
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:18pmgrayling646,
Lol…, thanks, I needed that..
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Gazoiks
Nov. 30, 2012 at 11:06amgrayling646 Your comment made my day. I like reading through the posts because once in a while you get a good chuckle from a funny comment in the middle of seriousness. You hit it today bud. Thanks for the chuckle.
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The-Monk
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:34pmI love watching them run. Very wonderful.
I do think the camera was not going 100 MPH though.
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newwell
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:28pmMore evidence for GOD the Creator wondrous design!!! Just look at the above video! What a spectacular design is the cheetah. Alternative “theories” just can’t hold a candle when they say that there is any “randomness” – Goo to zoo to you. Let’s make it easy. See how many times it would take to throw a handful of toothpicks on the table until they would form a cube – no life nor breath nor intelligence to a wooden cube. It would never happen!
The LORD is very jealous of His undeniable role as Creator. Read Romans 1:20-25 to find out why God is judging us with His abandonment. If you want to know what are the results of His abandonment then continue to read through vs. 31.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom & instruction.” (Prov. 1:7)
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Cesium
Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:09pmYou have obviously never had a nanosecond of study in the highly” tractable molecular” changes that occur during evolution. You think scientists are on some evil mission to destroy religion or something? Evolution is not a mere random process. If you think that well, you have already shown your inane assumption in your comment regarding the toothpicks. Just absolutely the stupidest analogy. It doesn’t even come close to how evolution works. It is like saying it is random chance that the small grains of sand sort to the top of the larger rocks as the water laps up. Evolution works the same way, chance is but a tiny component to evolutionary algorithm.
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The Giver
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:14pmNo matter how far they go to prove that it was not created by God, they can never answer who created the first molecules. Who created that from which everything evolved?
I thank God for all His creations which include honeybees, dragonflies and our non- believing brothers and sisters.
According to Darwinians, we are all evolving. I realize that it takes time, but maybe in our lifetimes, we will see babies born with another set of eyes … So they can text and watch where they are going at the same time.
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punyhuman
Nov. 30, 2012 at 3:29amHey, Cesium, when did evolution start?
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Cesium
Dec. 1, 2012 at 9:58pm@Puny The moment after the Great Expansion (Formally known satirically as the “big bang”) But, if I had to peg a point in time when evolution for life began, it would be the moment when the first elements of life were forged in collapsing supernovae before the earth existed.
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48Straights
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:23pmGreat job, on this cutting edge news. Who needs the real news?
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Lunertic
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:02pmThat’s what I was thinking 48. I mean, I could have been watching MSNBC and seen the NEWS.
About Brad and Angelina, Lady Gaga and maybe George Clooney.
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fergiedurgish
Nov. 29, 2012 at 12:56pmOMG! She caught it . . . What a beautiful video . . .
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fergiedurgish
Nov. 29, 2012 at 12:55pmOMG, she caught it . . . what a beautiful video . . .
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banjarmon
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:42amThe head stays in one plane and is focused on the pray. The head seems to float in front of the moving body in the head on shots!!! WOW!! This is GREAT!!!
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Obamainpeepee
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:25pmThat’s exactly what I saw! Just how steady the head was as compared to everything else that was going on behind it’s ears! Absolutely incredible!
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hi
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:24amMan builds robots that are all clunky and have to be held up to run. Yet people insist the cheetah randomly came into being through trillions upon trillions of mutations of “nothing!’
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FlagWavingPatriot
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:30pmYou mean to tell me you don’t believe in the nothing-exploded-and-became-something theory?? Me, either.
God’s designs and marvels are all around us. It’s beyond me why people can’t see them (or perhaps won’t acknowledge them). I pray people figure it out.
God bless.
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Rick Steele
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:05amIt’s nice that they show the cat running…too bad they didn’t show it CATCHING something…
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TPartyXpress
Nov. 30, 2012 at 6:06amYeah, like Cesium.
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OniKaze
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:04amCats (of all types) are amazing animals… Predators with soft hearts… I have a 1/2 blooded Bobcat, and I love her… She is so fun to watch and play with… If you like cats like this, and do not want to risk having a feral animal in your home, I suggest a Savannah cat, they run about $1k but they are the size of a medium dog and are very loving..
Plus its the only cat I know of that is happy to jump in the shower with you, keep the door closed if you don’t enjoy co-bathing with a large cat…
I knew a guy who had a cougar as a pet, and it was an awesome animal… It was very protective over people it liked…
I always wished I could have a Cheetah, but since they require large amounts of land for running, I cannot bring myself to get one knowing I cannot provide what it needs…
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Nov. 29, 2012 at 2:44pmSnowshoes also like to jump in the shower and play in water. They are playful and very intelligent. They are a mix of Siamese and Domestic Shorthair. I had one for a few years, until my idiot of a brother-in-law let him out. Knowing nothing about the street and cars, he got hit, probably by a cat-hater, who aimed for him.
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chips1
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:13pmI hate cats too! I spend 20 minutes each morning feeding the 11 cats that keep coming over to my house. Each one has to be fed in their special place. Living in the woods causes kittens. LOTS of KITTENS. I’ve spent hundreds getting them fixed. LOTS of KITTENS. I HATE CATS!!!!!!
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Nov. 30, 2012 at 3:18pmCHIPS1
I commend you for being the responsible one and getting the cats fixed. It’s not the cat’s fault, it’s the lazy, cheap-ass, un-caring people who would rather drop off their pregnant cat in your neighborhood/neck of the woods, rather than taking care of the problem in the first place, which is to neuter/spay. I guarantee that these same people can afford to buy beer and cigarettes for a month and more than likely use an EBT card.
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goahead.makemyday
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:44amWe understand our own planet and the creatures on it so little yet people have the gall to claim this happened or didn’t happen with complete certainty. We have to understand our own planet before we can hope to understand other planets. We have to understand our own selves before we can better others.
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4-The-Truth
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:16amAmazing photography.
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Codger
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:02amBreathtaking… great job. Remember God didn’t build that.
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ginge
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:35amWhat amazes me is with all the dynamic action going on in all those body and leg muscles the head remains steady eyes on the target. Reminds me of what all endeavors require “keep your eyes on the ball.”
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searcher619
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:54amProve he did.
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SquareHead
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:06am@searcher619
I guess you believe that man evolved from a rock? You sound like an open minded brilliant product of public education.
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JerryNic
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:45amSilly people. Obama caused this.
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goahead.makemyday
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:57amAll hail THE Obama The Lord and Savior of the USSA! The Creator and Provider of the poor and unfortunate and the bringer of wrath and ruin upon those who believed to raise themselves above the rest of humanity.
I’ve been wanting to say that for a while now, of course I in NO WAY believe this carp and mention it in total jest.
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Apple Bite
Nov. 29, 2012 at 11:32amSomebody helped GOD to get that cheetah up to speed.
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Dan_o
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:19pmSearcher, you must have a better explanation if you don’t buy God created it, so let’s hear it…or are you the typical coward “atheist” who throws grenades and runs?
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Jennifer_D
Nov. 30, 2012 at 12:24am@Searcher619
Prove He didn’t.
Oh; wait, you can’t, can you?
The correct scientific approach is that you disprove a hypothesis not the other way around. Only ignorant people could look at the beauty within nature and not see God’s handiwork.
Beautiful cheetah; amazing use of technology to create the video!
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roxy
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:30amLooks like it’s flying sometimes. Cool how just one of 4 paws hits the ground at a time.
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TomSawyer
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:31amI agree. That is what I learned from that video. I would never of thought that only one paw would touch the ground at a time. Very interesting.
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Balrog28
Nov. 29, 2012 at 1:20pmAnd if you notice – the cheetah compensates for balance by dropping left or right paw down first either consciously or unconsciously – truly amazing photography! Loved that – thanks Blaze
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FightingBear
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:16amBeautiful
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4xeverything
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:12amIf you’re ever in Cincinnati you should take a side trip to the Cincinnati Zoo. You can see the Cheetahs up close and personal at the Cheetah Run. It’s quite awesome. The Cincinnati Zoo is one of the best zoos in the nation. It does not disappoint. My kids love feeding the giraffes.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Nov. 29, 2012 at 2:36pmI live in the area. I am just trying to figure out which park they used to film that? Ault Park, or Woodland Mound? I agree with you about The Cincinnati and Botanical Gardens. I would rate it among one of the best in the country. Not only is it a Zoo, but it is also a Botanical Garden and has many different species of plants. I was a member of the Cincy Zoo until my children got tired of visiting. Cincinnati has many nice museums and architecture and the one that combines both, Cincinnati Museum at Union Terminal is probably one of the best places to visit when in Cincy. You can go spelunking, watch an IMAX film, see two rooms of model trains, walk through an Ice Age, and take your kids to the Discovery Zone and a Play Zone to un-wind.
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USAOneNationUnderGod
Nov. 29, 2012 at 4:33pmAnonymous, I, too, live in the area. This article http://www.ohgizmo.com/2012/11/29/cheetahs-filmed-in-super-slow-motion/ indicates it was filmed on Zoo grounds. Wouldn’t a public park be a little dangerous?
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:47pmI can’t imagine WHERE, on he zoo grounds, it could have been shot. Unless they own some land somewhere else, the only extra space they have is paved parking lot, and being surrounded by a bad neighborhood, there’s no other place for them to shoot it.
Knowing this, I just assumed they had to go somewhere else, like a park, to shoot it. As far as it being dangerous, I didn’t see any fences around where they were shooting, so I will also assume the handlers had it covered.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:26pmI watched the video in your link, it doesn’t mention where it was filmed, but there’s no way that was filmed in the area of the zoo. if you know the zoo and the area it is in, they just don’t have the land shown in the video.
In the NatGeo film, in the credits, they thank the Miami TWP Fire Dept., so, perhaps they used a park in Miami Township in Hamilton Co? Shawnee Lookout perhaps?
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facilitiesmgr
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:59amWe as humans should certainly learn some lessons from this short video. There is pursuit of a goal. Our goals never come to us, we have to have focused, strenuous activity.
God certainly made an amazing animal in the cheetah. His wonders are magnificent to behold.
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CHARACTER MATTERS
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:55amAmazing, I love how steady her head is!!!
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:49amGorgeous Animal. Amazing how perfectly designed God’s creatures are!
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Jenny Lind
Nov. 29, 2012 at 8:00amHe is an artist for sure, how easily we think of Him when we see beautifull creatures and even funny ones. Our hearts smile at the Creators masterpieces.
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WINNEBAGOMAN
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:25amWell said, both of you.
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Lee_in_PA
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:47amIt looks like Sarah’s spots are lifted up from her skin over her shoulders.
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kickagrandma
Nov. 29, 2012 at 7:41amReminds me of my early morning runs ~~~~ not!
BEAUTIFUL to see. WOW!
GOD must have had fun creating that creature.
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Capt_Gregg
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:15am“GOD must have had fun creating that creature.”
Well, He had to do SOMETHING to make up for the platypus. :-)
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goahead.makemyday
Nov. 29, 2012 at 10:46amDon’t forget the Echinda. (My proof that ANYTHING from Australia is weird)
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newwell
Nov. 29, 2012 at 9:25pmAdd to the funny & strange list…armadillos.
Echidnas are too cute, but I’ll bet they aren’t very cuddly :)
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