{"id":1069,"date":"2009-12-01T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-11-22T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T23:37:17","slug":"mashatu-cheetahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/12\/01\/mashatu-cheetahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashatu &#8211; Cheetahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"img_6708 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4028535270\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2772\/4028535270_4e00e8fd27.jpg\" alt=\"img_6708\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday September 19, 2009 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We never did find a tiger, but five cheetahs was a more than respectable substitute.<\/p>\n<p>The bush is full of little stories, each playing out in a tableau that virtually ignores the presence of humans in four-wheel drive vehicles.  On this morning, we watched hyena and cheetah in a dance probably as old as time.<\/p>\n<p>First, we saw three cheetah brothers, largely ignoring the hyena nearby but responding to the distant drum of horses.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6668 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4027757875\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2542\/4027757875_56dac7dca9.jpg\" alt=\"img_6668\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6675 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4028514370\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2502\/4028514370_131994382f.jpg\" alt=\"img_6675\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6719 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4027793013\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2781\/4027793013_92a004e707.jpg\" alt=\"img_6719\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we saw a young male and his mother being tracked by a single hyena. Needless to say, the hyena didn&#8217;t press the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6730 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4027801987\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2493\/4027801987_cee472311e.jpg\" alt=\"img_6730\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6744 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4028562138\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2535\/4028562138_9948c8c897.jpg\" alt=\"img_6744\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_6753 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4027810751\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2799\/4027810751_f299a6378e.jpg\" alt=\"img_6753\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/sets\/72157622625199972\/\">Full set <\/a>of photos from the day on Flickr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday September 19, 2009 AM We never did find a tiger, but five cheetahs was a more than respectable substitute. The bush is full of little stories, each playing out in a tableau that virtually ignores the presence of humans in four-wheel drive vehicles. On this morning, we watched hyena and cheetah in a dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,126,129],"tags":[147,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}