There is a short (6 minute) clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NevenDIp95A taken from the Craighead brothers' 1939 movie "Life With an Indian Prince" that shows trained cheetah coursing blackbuck antelope. To me this is unbelievably cool, and the only film footage I have ever seen of this.
----------------------------------------- "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Posts: 898 | Location: Tanzania | Registered: 07 December 2007
Thank you for posting the link to this outstanding footage of a sport that I had only read about and never expected to see or experience. The photography is outstanding given the fact that it was filmed 70 years ago.
Aziz
Posts: 591 | Location: Illinois | Registered: 04 July 2005
Recently they captured Asiatic Cheetah pics on a trail cam in Balochistan province of Pakistan....the area borders with Iran. I wish those cats good luck and lots of babies !!!
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