2 Crocodiles Chase 3 Cheetahs off Buck

3 cheetahs that successfully caught a waterbuck are chased off their meal by 12 crocodiles before they can finish their meal.
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Bob and Rosa Swart, retired nature enthusiasts, recently had this once-in-a-lifetime experience in Kruger National Park and shared it with LatestSightings.com.
"We were out on our daily drive when we spotted three cheetahs in the dry Shingwedzi river bed outside the camp gate. Despite the intense heat, the cheetahs were alert and focused on something in the riverbed. We waited for over an hour until a group of waterbucks approached, including some youngsters."
Cheetahs are known for their speed and agility, making them successful hunters. They can run up to 75 miles per hour in short bursts, allowing them to catch prey quickly. They rely on their eyesight to spot prey from a distance and use their speed to ambush them.
"Suddenly, one of the cheetahs slunk off into the bush, and the other two sprang into action, chasing the waterbucks. Success at last! One of the cheetahs managed to catch a waterbuck, and the rest of the cheetahs joined in."
"All the commotion created a lot of interest, and the crocodiles that were basking in the sun on the edges of the remaining pools of water began approaching. The cheetahs tried to stand their ground and began hissing at the crocodiles."
"The crocodiles eventually intimated the cheetahs, and they sprinted off away from their meal. A total of 12 crocodiles appeared and went for the waterbuck carcass. However, in the end, only the largest crocodile remained at the carcass, surrounded by vultures and other scavenging birds."
Crocodiles are not often considered scavengers. They are known to actively hunt their own prey rather than scavenge from other animals that have already been caught. Crocodiles will feed on almost anything they can catch, including fish, birds, and mammals.
The Swarts advise fellow nature enthusiasts to drive slowly and be considerate of other visitors in the park. With the right attitude and a little bit of luck, anyone can have a memorable experience in Kruger National Park.
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[@docj72]

Those cheetahs must have seen the infamous video of the croc suddenly jumping out of the water and pulling the unsuspecting cheetah in with it

[@broadbandislife]

More like fear of crocodiles - and for that matter, _water_ - is pretty much genetic in most African land animals. The scaly river monsters are *that* dangerous to life and limb.

[@wintvusa86]

Leopards seem to have failed to fight crocodiles.

[@AlrienJ]

That's what I was thinking 😂😂

[@Asdasty]

@@broadbandislife Nah, I think its more likely they saw the video of the croc catching the cheetah and dragging it into the water.

[@broadbandislife]

@@Asdasty The heck are they watching on there in the bush, shortwave radio? I don't want to think of the framerates they're getting...

[@ilarivaisanen]

I love how the big croc was leading the way and smaller ones just came behind like "yeah, i'm with him"

[@TheEyeOfBeardie]

conga line of crocodiles

[@che3601]

@oden yh i noticed that

[@Young_Dab]

Cheetahs are the weakest big cats. Out of cheetahs, leopards and lions, I rather face a cheetah.

[@che3601]

@@Young_Dab they're not panthera bro, they're closer to house cats than leopards and shit

[@yz2553]

@@Young_Dab id rather face a cheetah than a crazy pitbull, there is zero chance a cheetah would attack me, im good😎

[@jacquesdemolay5171]

Wow, I've never seen anything quite like this. That's highway robbery! That croc was a persistent little bugger. That hard-earned meal would've served those three cheetahs quite well. Never thought they'd have to compete with crocs on dry land like that. Amazing footage.

[@4exgold]

at least the cheetahs got a bit of food from it.

[@jsksoiiissk2323]

​@@4exgold ça

[@broadbandislife]

Crocs can and will try to dispute kills with entire lion prides when the mood strikes them.

[@bongos1996]

Needed to move the antelope much further from the water given the steady progress of those crocs. Cheetah were never going to intimidate the crocs.

[@wintvusa86]

But I think according to the strength of the 1:1 fight, the crocodile will win. Now it's up to their abilities and intelligence

[@Wyldout]

Cheetah: I worked too hard for this meal, give it back. Crocs: no.

[@azunkor422]

🐊: "Sharing is caring"

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Some of those cheetahs 🐈 really need to contribute more to the pulling away game.

[@Coffee4Dessert]

LOL I don't know why but this reminded me of "The Office". I can totally picture the lead Cheetah giving a Michael Scott speech after they lost the food.

[@robertseptim3579]

This reminded me of the tortoise and the hare. The croc may have been slow but he was committed. He’s even got armor like the tortoise, and the cheetahs are fast like the hare. The only major difference is that the hare was overconfident and the cheetahs here were lacking confidence 😂

[@broadbandislife]

More like they aren't bloody stupid. Crocs are such a threat to life and limb much African land life is reflexively terrified of going into water, and apes born and raised in captivity without ever seeing a live one are congenitally afraid of small toy ones. Cheetahs? They live and die by their ability to run fast and duly can afford to risk injury even less than most. Also very poorly equipped to contest kills with anything even close to their size.

[@Kurt_Philanderer]

It's the teeth of the croc the cheetahs are scared of. Cheetahs are delicate and built for speed, and the crocs; they don't let go. But I like your analogy, such is nature, you don't always have to be fast to win the race

[@broadbandislife]

@@Kurt_Philanderer I don't think cheetahs would much appreciate the bone fractures from getting hit by that tail, either. The appendage may functionally be an oar... but as many traditional martial artists could tell you oars make pretty decent fighting staves.

[@kydelvetus642]

Crocs can be lightning fast for a few seconds but they can't be bothered to do any fast movements in this video because they don't need to

[@TR4R]

I don't understand why they didn't pull the prey the three of them together to move fast enough to scape the crocodile. Also made me think about such a trade off it is to forsake more muscles in exchange of more speed. Not that good.

[@FatherManus]

Imagine being the fastest land animal and letting a reptile that’s slow on land steal your kill.

[@juniorfan7a]

Its like having a gun and still losing in a knife fight.

[@broadbandislife]

The carcass doesn't run with you, after all. So your choices are to stand and fight over it (not a good idea here) or give way and write it off as a loss. It's kind of comparable how once humans started putting down roots as settled agriculturalists they also needed to start devising ways to fight would-be takers off it. There's a reason leopards bring their meals up to trees when one is available.

[@3winanimal]

Have you imagined those images yet, and imagine for us :))

[@s33animallover]

Cause a croc can easily kill a cheetah and lion

[@FatherManus]

@@s33animallover No, not a lion and definitely not on land.

[@totalbullion5882]

I like the cheetah at the end " come on guys, you can't even eat it on land" 🤣😅

[@TMR111]

😂🤣😅

[@dougllaz6267]

How?

[@taoufik.Morocco]

Those crocs are ready to tracking cheetas for the prey even to the mountains 😂

[@jkoblivion4175]

What it's incredible is how fast the cheetah went from 0 to full speed.

[@gregorymurphy3234]

Poor Cheetahs, why do they have to get bullied all the time by other animals

[@floridacracker_]

If they showed some sort of aggression, they may have a little chance anyway. Worth a try atleast.

[@edntz]

Because they aren't strong compared to the other predators. Only very fast. Which is mostly only good for running away.

[@An_Actual_Rat]

Luckily they have a very high success rate when hunting so they won't go hungry for long.

[@optimusprime5794]

​@Pessoa sem nome cough cough....no tigers here

[@skythdicnri88]

Why are they such pussies than is what your really asking

[@RonF313]

Cheetahs were frantically trying to eat and drag the kill and the big croc is just slowly advancing like Michael Myers 🤣🤣🤣

[@natluvcoach79]

Ant no way in hell was this suppose to happen! A Croc coming this far inland and taking a meal from some Cheetahs??? 😂

[@TuneinR]

Crocs are competing even on land😂😂😂

[@alexmpoke2610]

That is unbelievable filming technque.Thanks team for sharing

[@thecatholiccorner]

Crocs: "Leave our DEER friend alone!"

[@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056]

That’s an antelope, not a deer.

[@thecatholiccorner]

@@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056 thanks

[@shafqatishan437]

Antelopes are more closely related to cattle, goats, sheep and buffaloes than deer. There are no deer in Africa

[@thecatholiccorner]

@@shafqatishan437 thanks 😊

[@GenericDan]

​@@shafqatishan437There are deer in Africa. Barbary stags.

[@cbyhahn1]

A once in a lifetime-sighting! Awesome! In 2012, I was lucky to witness a cheetah kill in the Shingwedzi riverbed at Kanniedood Hide, just south of the camp. However, the three cheetahs could enjoy an undisturbed meal until 50+ vultures took over.

[@scottalderson8673]

😮

[@mehdicirtensis]

One of the cheetah was very smart, he continued to eat and pull the carcass as soon as the crocodile approached

[@symph760]

Exactly. He knew that they might lose this kill and decided to tuck in something. His mates deserve to go hungry as they didnt even assist him in dragging away the carcass

[@henthust9784]

Seems like only one cheetah was concerned with getting the kill out of reach. The other two were only concerned about eating.

[@dreamzoe957]

Seen the same thing they could have easily dragged it away if all 3 helped

[@bettybunbun9664]

This was like a farcical comedy, the way the cheetahs keep moving the impala only for the slow moving but persistent croc to catch up with them again, the mini me sidekicks of the main croc trailing along behind. All thats missing is a laugh track.

[@fahvm4362]

This channel 10x better than National Geographic. 🙌🏻

[@flesz_]

Croc was walking slowly like a boss

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@MicheleMartinez-oh1kx]

Crocs always be like let me get bite of your Cheeseburger Yo!?!

[@kunalmergu3811]

Hey team... Despite subscribing and pressing bell icon I was not getting your video recommendations.... Glad I found it again by scrolling.... And as always great video.... The main reason of subscription...

[@naturelover908]

Yoh! One of a kind. Awesome sighting

[@kronotic]

🐊🐊 ----- *They see me rollin', they hatin'*

[@BoisterousPancakeBoi]

A literal case of "you can run, but you can't hide"

[@RebelliousJoyboy]

That crocodile is a UNIT!

[@epicnate6277]

These aren’t particularly large crocodiles, they just appear large next to the smaller cheetahs.

[@garysteinfield4623]

They are both teens not even close to fully grown, they looks around 2.5m and 2m respectively

[@digital_gravity]

This is why you must eat VERY quickly in the wild

[@che3601]

yh but what about when your meal is half the size of you and you don't have hands, opposable thumbs, or the ability the chew sideways like us

[@LordJoey999]

As they walk I can't help by think 'Interior Crocodile Alligator I drive a chevrolet movie theater'. Just me?

[@ozemsadventureofrandomstuf252]

Haha I love the cheetah who keeps eating in meantime😮😌

[@cczz5501]

the fact he look over to the cheetah like “yeah this my leg, it was yours but it’s mine now”

[@sacq13]

Fascinating footage On Dry land though.. woah

[@JamesBond-hm3bw]

Life is very hard for a cheetah!! I have seen a lot of videos where they couldn't eat their prey which they hunted down! 😴

[@Jay-ls5vw]

If life is hard for a cheetah, how is life of a buck?

[@baldheadkid]

@@Jay-ls5vw If we measure quality of life on a species level, whether it can survive (meaning food + reproduction).. then cheetah's have it much worse than bucks. In the same way: you might know an individual human who might be miserable but the human species has the best quality of life compared to the other animals, because humans have plenty of food and opportunity to reproduce.

[@3winanimal]

Leopards lose their prey because they can't fight other big animals. but they can bully those weaker than it

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

Yeah but mostly they eat what they hunted

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

​@@baldheadkid fan fuct: lions and tigers die of starvation more than cheetah

[@MrJdebest]

I heard years ago that the cheetah was doomed to extinction because it is too specialized. Built for high speed and not much else, it can not keep the animals it kills. Leopards would haul that meal up into a tree, and lions can fight off other competitors. The cheetah has to be careful not to get injured or it will die. Hope this is wrong 😮

[@thomasneal9291]

Cheetah have existed for tens of thousands of years just as you see them. Obviously, their style of hunting works fine

[@juniorfan7a]

Imagine a Sabertooth who had ALL these qualities of the big cats combined and still gone extinct.

[@broadbandislife]

@@juniorfan7a ...you do realise those guys were among other things rather slow, right? And those smexy oversized canines actually came with a raft of limitations and caveats, as highly specialised traits now tend to. Which is why that branch of cats is now extinct and the more versatile ones do pretty well aside from humans screwing them over.

[@broadbandislife]

It's no more "doomed to extinction" than any highly specialised species. But heightened vulnerability to extinction in case of environmental disruptions is an universal tax those have to pay for lack of competition within their narrow niche (compare eg. the giant panda).

[@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056]

@@broadbandislife It’s funny how wrong you are. Get debunked. “Writers of the first half of the twentieth century theorized that the last saber-toothed cats, Smilodon and Homotherium, became extinct through competition with the faster and more generalized felids that replaced them. It was even proposed that the saber-toothed predators were inferior to modern cats, as the ever-growing canines were thought to inhibit their owners from feeding properly. Yet non Sabertooth felids, such as the American lion (Panthera atrox) and the American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani) also became extinct during the Late Pleistocene. The fact that saber-teeth appeared many times in unrelated lineages also attests to the success of this feature.” The Sabertooths Smilodon populator, Smilodon fatalis were also ecologically modern and became extinct mostly because of humans and a bit of climate change. The term prehistoric also doesn’t fit animal species that lived from the middle Pleistocene and became extinct in the Late Pleistocene, the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, and the Holocene. Why? Because they literally lived in ecosystems that are still around today and also lived alongside and were contemporaneous with almost ALL LIVING ANIMAL SPECIES IN THE PLEISTOCENE.

[@theeagleusa]

Amazing video🎉🎉🎉

[@tajangnenker9335]

Feel sad for cheetha they are the weakest big cat

[@levent.a.7280]

Cheetahs are not big cats, big cats are lions , tigers, jaguars and leopards, cheetahs are the most docile cats , even house cats are more dangerous and have more fighting skills / spirits than cheetahs.

[@zolotoiscatel-]

@@levent.a.7280 Гепарды это большие кошки

[@camrendavis6650]

​@@levent.a.7280 they are big cats, just weak

[@levent.a.7280]

@@camrendavis6650 definitely not big cats, IAM a big cat expert , cheetahs can't roar and are extremely weak , in a fight between a house cat and a cheetah, my money would be on the house cat.

[@TanksInSpace_]

Cheetahs aren't weak, they are one of the best hunters around. They just aren't build to fight.

[@RSAMV9611]

The last cheetah alone was a brave one out there

[@anant1985]

Cheetahs :- Maan this our lunch Maan, Crock :- it's just a starter For me, get away or els ull be the main course. 😂

[@ironfootgaming87]

Read that so quick the two last words were totally different in my mind. 😂

[@prathamkataria7570]

Man reptiles look so wierd to us as mammals. Their solid expressionless faces. Moving side to side on their sprawling legs, stopping in between and just becoming completely still, then suddenly moving again. Slow but determined.

[@eternalbeing3339]

The cheetahs were like "you can have it, it does not taste good anyway".

[@Senecamarcus]

The only channel where thumbnail = video!

[@anaryllis1240]

Cheetahs are like DUDE that our lunch. Crocks get gud plebs!

[@marcelmarizu1229]

Wow! These monsters have adapted for millions of years and can now stay longer out of water. Incredible scene

[@ButcheryTapes]

Master Mason still spinning the Darwins evolution theory of lies I see 🤫

[@s33animallover]

I’m sorry to break it to you but The world is not millions years old and Evolution is totally cap cry about kid

[@SharktopusUltima6064]

@@s33animallover L troll

[@lindafromcalifornia1155]

Wow, what a sighting. The last cheetah reminded me of a blackback jackel trying to snatch a bite-sized. 😊

[@mayankshrivastava1058]

Hello can we use your visual and photography? Please reply

[@Adventureinthewildsafaris]

this is unbelievably great

[@Adventureinthewildsafaris]

😂the way the crocodile moves is a strong sign to fear his ability when near you. Cheetahs are right to run

[@zacharybriddell98]

On the video description it says that the 3 cheetahs were taken their meal away by 12 crocodiles, but in the video they,re only 2 crocodiles!

[@followthesun2115]

That's why I always order my meals to go.

[@daviedits18]

Poxa chega dá pena o guepardo sofre muito na natureza 😢

[@spotemgotement.reloaded389]

The cheetahs lost their meal as fast as it took to catch it.

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

Most of the time it doesn't happen tho

[@ronaldmolinasandoval1849]

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[@johanrebel]

Mrs. Crocodile Whisperer gets a special award for her perceptive, lapidary and insightful commentary. Well done!

[@craigdeklerk3863]

What an inane comment on such a fantastic video. Check yourself man.

[@dkcrooby1]

Ooh, big man Johan, likes to take others down. Don't you realise how stupid it makes you look? Amazing video footage. Would love to have been there to see it myself.

[@LisiJanVentures]

Oh dear. Always a dork in the comments. 😂 @Johanrebel

[@johanrebel]

@@dkcrooby1 The subject matter is interesting, but the video quality is mediocre at best. That's to some extent excusable, given the constraints imposed by KNP rules & regs (you're restricted to a very limited road network, etc). However, the first rule of wildlife filming applies everywhere and at all times: keep your trap shut. Dead simple, yet for some reason incredibly hard for so many. Those with Attenborough ambitions can alway add pertinent narration afterwards when editing the footage.

[@johanrebel]

@@craigdeklerk3863 The inane comments were the ones made in a whisper loud enough for all viewers to hear.

[@AmazingJames1987]

The price of losing a meal? One buck.

[@remhk6672]

😂

[@remhk6672]

U need more likes!

[@sakettibrewal3247]

Rare sighting 😮

[@johanrebel]

Although it cannot be ruled out that a cheetah can attain a speed of 75 mph, there's as of yet no proof. 63 mph is the top speed recorded so far.

[@masiosareiii4915]

The cheetahs should call to their jaguars bros those tiny crocodiles can't stand a chance against the mighty Jaguar's bite.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

The jaguar has no chance against the Nile crocodile and even the great black caiman.

[@masiosareiii4915]

@@Polosatiy_Varan jaguars kill by crushing the skulls of crocodiles, something neither lions nor tigers can do, they have the most powerful bite among all big cats.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

@@masiosareiii4915 They can prey on small caimans, but adult crocodiles and even large caimans are too well protected from this, so you won't see a jaguar fighting big crocs. The skull of the American crocodile, for example, weighs more than the jaguar because of the very thick and strong bones. The jaguar will simply break its teeth against osteoderms and thick skin. Large crocodiles are tolerant of strong blows from large buffalo, which is much worse than the bite of a small jaguar tooth.

[@marianpascu8474]

One would think that cheetahs gave to too easily, but the truth is that crocs ' bites win against the cheetahs, because even if the croc would get a bite from a cheetah, their body scales are too tough, so they are tankier anyway, so they would win bite vs bite.

[@somerandomperson6511]

Deinosuchus mains when someone makes a kill at center:

[@Vanderson_Brito7]

Se fossem três onças pintadas, elas teriam um antílope e dois crocodilos para o almoço 😂

[@howhow88]

Wow it's just like in the movies 🎬 🎥

[@khalidfromjeddah]

We need full video

[@mamotalemankoe3775]

The true underclass of the savannah, getting trounced by basically everything.

[@gishathosaurus6828]

Jesus man, all they had to do is drag the carcass... by the time the croc gets to it, it's alredy a skeleton lol

[@bouutiquems3578]

Poor cheetahs

[@bgant1551]

Are crocs evolving? I see more videos of them on land

[@Rikka_V1]

They have lungs for breathing so land is supposed to be the actual home.

[@PuppyLynch]

The cheetahs had the right idea to drag the kill further inland. Unfortunately, they either weren't smart enough to continue doing so, or they have less stamina than a croc on land.

[@broadbandislife]

Cheetahs aren't particularly strong - they're specialised in speed - and tend to be left more or less winded after hunts; it can take them up to an hour to fully recover from a particularly strenuous chase. And crocs have no particular stamina issues on land.

[@zacharybriddell98]

2:15=“Get outta here, this is our lunch, and we caught it fair and square.”

[@MC-poet]

Should have just kept pulling and eating, eat it up like some fast food. They're too slow to catch up.

[@Vanderson_Brito7]

@biomesquita Se fossem onças pintadas, isso teria acontecido?

[@MrHeavy466]

We go from a high speed pursuit to a tactical crawl.

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

Atleast the cheetas got a lil bit of food before they were chased off

[@user-co5kn3yg3r]

ধন্যবাদ তাহসিন কমিললা মতলক

[@johanrebel]

Crocodiles most certainly are scavengers. For starters, they commonly scavenge from other crocodiles. A kill by one will attract all the others in the vicinity, all vying to tear chunks off the victim. They will also eat other dead crocs, or anything else they can lay their jaws on. Moreover, crocodiles have an acute sense of smell, and can pick up the scent of blood from a considerable distance. I recall finding a lion kill by following the tracks of a large crocodile that had headed inland from the Luvuvhu River. Despite its size, the three lions had no difficulty seeing the croc off.

[@broadbandislife]

Ya, they definitely aren't picky eaters. It's theorised that ability and willingness to scavenge carrion was one factor that tided their ancestors over the massive but transient ecological disruptions of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, and it certainly isn't a quality that hurts one's survival prospects in general.

[@camm8642]

a group of lions will do that sometimes......one lion to one croc though the lion might have to share if the croc is large enough and hungry enough

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

Crocodiles sometimes eat carrion, but not rotten meat.

[@johanrebel]

@@Polosatiy_Varan Congratulations, you've managed to contradict yourself in an eight word sentence. Carrion: the decaying flesh of dead animals.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

@@johanrebel There are different meanings of the word carrion. I use it for all animal carcasses.

[@pvfeB7Ax]

If it wasn't for that asteroid those lizards would still rule the Earth.

[@jflamesondatrack9544]

Lmao this deserves a good voice over 😂😂

[@user-sh7gz1eh7h]

Крокодил как англосаксов🙏🔥

[@ibrahimsyal]

Reminds me of School Bullies who snatch away smaller or weaker kids lunch every DAMN-day. And the helplessness that ensues it 😔. Ibrahim Syal

[@nomsoezenta1788]

Cheetahs are the fast land animal, but not amongst the most intelligent. They should have continued dragging the Antelope away till the crocs stop coming forward. Crocodiles do not like to go too far away from water.

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

I don't think it's about intelligence cheetah is very tired after hunting they can barely even hold the deer

[@davisalphonce7001]

Cheetahs are intelligent, they know right they couldn't risk a fight with those monsters as they stood no chance at all.Nature is damn cruel

[@broadbandislife]

"Word." - the late antelope

[@floridacracker_]

Hey, that's mine!! Thx for killing it tho. Wish you would've dragged it closer to the water, but this will work lol

[@sultanofswat9382]

Crocs remind of the living dead, they just slowly keep coming

[@BorisKOUKA]

For those who want to know : cheetahs used all their energy to hunt their prey. Most of the time they just bring it to a tree to be safe, recovering and eat. But this one was too big and they didn't had enought strengh recovering to pull this big prey under this hot weather. Croc are cold blood so they getting stronger when its hot and can track prey without fetting too tired.

[@broadbandislife]

That's not how ectothermy works; environmental temperature dictates the _level of activity_ they're capable of - eg. a commonly witnessed case in point, frogs and snakes getting more and more sluggish and eventually incapable of moving at all as winter approaches and temperatures drop. Which is why they need to seek cover to hibernate in. In African daytime heat they of course have no problems whatsoever. _Endotherms_ ("warm-blooded" animals) OTOH have major overheating issues especially with intense exercise that produces extra metabolic heat, which is one reason many carnivores in such climates prefer hunting at night. It's a particularly acute problem for cheetahs given their hunting technique; it can take them up to an hour to fully cool down and recover after a chase.

[@jacksmith479]

Also leopards are the ones who drag their prey into trees to eat, cheetahs do not have the strength to do this

[@BorisKOUKA]

@@jacksmith479 you are right

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

​@@jacksmith479 don't have the claws you mean because even leopard sometimes don't have strength to do it

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

​@@BorisKOUKA no he is not cheetah can't climb trees even without prey or weight the reason is their claws

[@ronxansu]

They should have kept their prey as far away from the crocodile as possible.

[@3winanimal]

The natural world is full of dramatic and sometimes surprising moments, such as the scene of two crocodiles chasing off three cheetahs from their prey. While cheetahs are known for their speed and agility, they are not well-equipped for hunting in water, where crocodiles thrive. The crocodiles' natural instinct to protect their territory and food source led them to chase off the cheetahs, who wisely retreated to avoid a potentially dangerous situation.

[@Desire123ification]

Cheetahs are among the most successful hunters, yet they are unable to protect their kills, very sad!

[@BaoNguyen-bh2rk]

Speed kills but doesn't eat.

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

Tgey eat their meal 90% of the time do you think you can survive thousands of years without eating

[@BaoNguyen-bh2rk]

@@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl

[@roqueproenca7711]

A onça pintada pega os jacaré os Crocodilos são bem maiores, será que elas ia encarar

[@miked1187]

If they could have kept dragging the carcass into the brush the crocs may have went back. A bite from a croc could seriously injure one of them. Too bad they lost it but they seem like good hunters. They will kill again and hopefully eat in peace.

[@Mr.Awes0me]

Everyone wants to eat the deer and everyone steals the kill from the cheetah. Two most unlucky animals out there.

[@s33animallover]

Antelope not deer

[@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl]

Not everyone Name 6 animals do it You can't and this situation happen to any predator hunt near crocodile area even lions afraid of them

[@patrickoleary2862]

OMG crocs are bad-ass.....

[@Manualdavida__]

Parece como acontece no Brasil. Os guepardos representam o povo e os crocodilos o governo.

[@Frankd22003]

Crocs have to slumber deep into dry land to scavenging/stealing foods is the sign of another evolution. Crocs will adapt to have the speed of the cheetah. 😂

[@broadbandislife]

??? They've always been perfectly happy eating carrion, and for that matter moonlighting as dry-land ambushers. (They're actually pretty versatile.) Traits that helped their ancestors survive the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

@@broadbandislife Crocodiles rarely eat carrion.

[@broadbandislife]

@@Polosatiy_Varan [citation needed] Meanwhile on Wikipedia: "-- They also scavenge or steal kills from other predators, such as lions and leopards (Panthera pardus).[10] Groups of Nile crocodiles may travel hundreds of meters from a waterway to feast on a carcass.[32] They also feed on dead hippopotamuses (Hippopotamus amphibius) as a group (sometimes including three or four dozen crocodiles), tolerating each other. Much of the food from crocodile stomachs may come from scavenging carrion, and the crocodiles could be viewed as performing a similar function at times as do vultures or hyenas on land.[9] -- Occasionally, if regular food becomes scarce, both lions and the crocodile will steal kills on land from each other and, depending on size, will be dominant over one another. Both species may be attracted to carrion, and may occasionally fight over both kills or carrion.[100] --" - Nile crocodile/Hunting and diet "-- Most species will eat anything suitable that comes within reach and are also opportunistic scavengers.[32] -- They may be unable to deal with a large animal with a thick hide, and may wait until it becomes putrid and comes apart more easily.[111] --" - Crocodilia/Feeding Yeah, better have something convincing to back up your sweeping claim with.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

@@broadbandislife This is true, but as I said earlier, this does not happen often.

[@broadbandislife]

@@Polosatiy_Varan _[citation needed]_ I have absolutely no reason to merely take your word on it at a face value you know. What are you even basing your claim _on_ anyway?

[@aldorfc220]

They learned after there cousin was eating alive by a croc 😂

[@murataltan5908]

😢otcul hayvanlar çok zulüm görüyorlar yazik oluyor

[@SevilayVegan]

Sorma ya! Yazik kendi ot yiyor.

[@sivakumarchandran2666]

Cant believe a house cat can drive these crocs back to water and cheetahs cant 🙂

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

Any domestic cat is only food for crocodiles/alligators.

[@fillfinish7302]

cheetahs should ve kept pulling the carcass croc can't go very far from water

[@edntz]

Crocodiles can go far without water. They just choose not to.

[@fillfinish7302]

simply cos they heat up quickly.

[@broadbandislife]

I don't think you know much about how crocodiles work.

[@user-lh3ld9os3q]

Probably, Crocs Says we will not let you eat in Peace!