Who's a big scaredy cat? Cheetah 逃げるs in terror after the fox it was chasing turns the (米)棚上げする/(英)提議するs and 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s

  • Bat-eared fox had wandered a little too の近くに to the cheetah's cubs
  • Cheetah attacked but the wily little fox 辞退するd to go 負かす/撃墜する without a fight
  • After giving the cheetah the slip it 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d at the much larger predator

The hunter becomes the 追跡(する)d as a wily 砂漠 fox decides its had やめる enough of 存在 chased the African savannah by a Cheetah and decides to chase it around instead.?

The 女性(の) big cat had been stalking a Thomson's gazelle around in Tanzania's Ngorongoro 自然保護 area when two bat-eared foxes wandered a little too の近くに to her cubs.

Deciding that the foxes would 製造者 an 平易な dinner, the cheetah 許すd the gazelle to escape and 始める,決める off after one of the foxes instead.

Leaps and bounds: The cheetah begins by chasing the desert fox  around the savannah in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation area

Leaps and bounds: The cheetah begins by chasing the 砂漠 fox around the savannah in Tanzania's Ngorongoro 自然保護 area

The female cheetah appears to have the fox on the run after  she noticed it was snooping  around her cubs

Scram: The 女性(の) cheetah appears to have the fox on the run after she noticed it was snooping around her cubs

However after it 新たな展開d and turned to get away the fox decided it wasn't going 負かす/撃墜する without a fight and ended up 非難する the cheetah taking her by such surprise she ran away with her tail between 脚s.

As the humbled mum 再編成するd with her cubs they left hungry while the foxes kept watch looking pleased they had lived to see another day.

The amazing moment was 逮捕(する)d in February by photographer Stu Porter, 37, while on a safari his company organised in the Ngorongoro 自然保護 area in Tanzania.

Standoff: After slipping away from the Cheetah the fox stops in its tracks and confronts the much l
arger predator

引き分け: After slipping away from the Cheetah the fox stops in its 跡をつけるs and 直面するs the much larger predator

Scaredy cat: The fox turned the tables and started chasing the Cheetah

My turn: The fox turns the (米)棚上げする/(英)提議するs 非難する the Cheetah and sending her packing

Victorious:The group of foxes look especially pleased with themselves after seeing of the much larger animal

勝利を得た:The group of foxes look 特に pleased with themselves after seeing o f the much larger animal

He said: 'The 女性(の) cheetah was 明確に 意図 on 追跡(する)ing and she 無d in on the gazelle but while she was in 中央の-追跡(する) a group of bat eared foxes bundled に向かって the two cubs.

'They すぐに got 利益/興味d in the foxes and stalked 権利 up to them - at first the foxes stood their ground and 直面するd the cheetahs but then they decided to run.

'This kicked off the chase instinct in the mum and she began chasing the foxes all over the place as which didn't go unnoticed by the gazelle which took off.

Looking for me? An inquisitive cheetah cub climbs onto the back of photographer Stu Porter who captured the action on the savannah

Looking for me? An inquisitive cheetah cub climbs の上に the 支援する of photographer Stu Porter who 逮捕(する)d the 活動/戦闘 on the savannah

'All of a sudden the foxes decided they had enough and turned on the cheetah and chased it off almost in a 分裂(する) second before 再編成するing and looking very 満足させるd with their 成果/努力s.

'It all lasted a few minutes and as the foxes made of f the cheetahs caught their breath realising they had 行方不明になるd out on two meals in the space of minutes.

'I would assume this 肉親,親類d of 対決 happens やめる a lot in the wild however it would be rarely 証言,証人/目撃するd, we were very lucky to be in the 権利 place at the 権利 time.'

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