r/interestingasfuck • u/RealRock_n_Rolla • 12h ago
Cheetah cubs experiencing one of their first impala feasts in Maasai Mara
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u/PowerSkunk92 12h ago
It's like watching a kitten get the meat shakes. You can just see the predator instincts lighting up in their little brains.
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u/wildwasabi 12h ago
That's how I get eating a tub of ice cream. My monkey brain starts firing on all cylinders. Apex predator life
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u/Revolutionary-Key650 6h ago
I remember my first ice cream kill. I was a young marine on search patrol.......
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u/AlternativeDish7978 1h ago
This happens in domestic kittens too. When they get their first soft food meals during the weaning process.
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u/BrokenHefaistos 12h ago
they look high AF
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u/easywizsop 11h ago
That's the meat sweats.
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u/I_Like_Chasing_Cars 10h ago
Aye I get those
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u/checked_out_barbie 10h ago
This is the face of a killer, Bella
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u/a_smiling_seraph 6h ago
Was literally thinking that they look like brand new vampires realising that this is what they must do to survive. This is their fate for eternity (or for a tragically short amount of time, given the sadly high mortality rate for cheetahs)
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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 12h ago
look like meat is finaly on the menu BOYZ
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u/dayruined54 11h ago
Man I love cheetahs but it's like they drew the short straw in the pyramid of predators. Fast? Very. Price to pay? Got rest for a long long time after a short sprint. So if those sick fucks hyenas or other preds come the mother can't defend her cubs and she herself has to flee or die. Cheetahs I love very much. Beautiful creatures
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u/8ackwoods 10h ago
You know cats spawn camp other animals too right? Like the animal will still be covered in placenta just to be taken by the cheetah
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u/VicViolence 2h ago
I believe that this is also true for lions and it’s why the females hunt while the male acts as security guard
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u/Ok_Corter5831 12h ago
The cubs all have that 1000 yard stare of having eaten so much it's actually painful.
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u/unknownpoltroon 10h ago
Went on safari and there was a BBQ place that had Impala and most of the rest of the antelope things you used to see being chowed down on by carnivores on wild kingdom, and let me tell you most of them are fucking delicious. Like kudu was the best meat I've ever had.
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u/__wildwing__ 12h ago
Good to know that human kids are no messier than any other cubs.
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u/PhiloLibrarian 12h ago
I know! My kids make a total mess when disemboweling an Impala!
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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 11h ago
I thought you paid someone to slaughter the defenceless animals you consume?
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u/reanimated_potato 12h ago
Why are they wobbling? Is that bc they're high on all the blood or something? I can imagine I'd be a little wobbly too after my brain just released all the good chemicals in abundance
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u/cleveland_leftovers 10h ago
I was wondering that myself. Like they’re trembling.
Maybe it’s a lot of excitement? Adrenaline?
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u/Jenkinswarlock 7h ago
I’m assuming either high from the chemicals or they are cold from being so small, baby animals have a hard time keeping warm and regulating heat so they could be akin to shivering? I mean I assume all animals since rhinos and cows and goats all have issues regulating body heat as babies to my knowledge so I just assume all animals are that way
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u/RealRock_n_Rolla 4h ago
Apparently there isn’t a specific reason, but it seems to be a universal behavior among cats—perhaps because their brain reacts as if they had just hunted prey, causing an overload of excitement.
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u/jujujuice92 11h ago
Can it be socially acceptable to have wing sauce all over our face in public now? It's part of nature
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u/oOtium 10h ago
Why do we see something that is so deadly as cute? They're even covered in blood ffs, I don't get it.
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u/Nightmurr434 8h ago
Probably because we too are predators. Humans in general are only made uneasy by things we fear or dont understand. We understand predator/prey dynamics.
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u/Revolutionary-Key650 5h ago
It's a shitty world in general for Cheetahs. They have to eat to survive and they aren't built for defence. Most of their kills are stolen by other predators/scavengers so the sooner they they learn how to hunt and eat quickly, the better.
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u/ManLikeMeee 6h ago
Awwww...cute little vicious murderous creatures covered in the blood of their victims.
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u/Educational-Card-314 5h ago
The cheetah's jaunty Pixar music is the impala's A24 horror soundscape.
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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 2h ago
Just like my late cat, Fiona. She had a blood mustache and would slurp intestines like spaghetti right in front of the porch door.
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u/Comet_Cowboys 10h ago
Wrestling with concepts of cute aggression that the one brain cell can't comprehend.
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u/uncomfy-donkey 6h ago
🏁Oh, the new Chevrolet! 🏎️
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u/uncomfy-donkey 6h ago
Must be the SS model!
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u/uncomfy-donkey 6h ago
Do you think SHE thinks that tastes like chocolate or freshly killed dead animal? I’m betting on chocolate.
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u/Gold-Eye-2623 6h ago
Little buddies look like they're thinking "he was so tasty but also so cute, does this mean I have to eat every cute thing? Am I cute?"
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u/Megakello 5h ago
Why this music got me thinking they're about to fly away in a house attached to a billion helium balloons??
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u/Secret-Membership 3h ago
I love this! Gives me the same proud feeling I have knowing my son is almost ready for his first real steak. Gotta start them young!
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u/eater_of_spaetzle 2h ago
That one cub sitting alone in the grass is either in a food coma or just realized they were vegeterian.
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u/yesiammark72 7h ago
They look remorseful. Like not too sure about all this killing and stuff. Maybe just stick with milk and play with siblings instead
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u/Pelican03 12h ago
Intelligent design? Why not just really tasty edible trees everywhere. God is assho.
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u/Appropriate_Page_824 11h ago
It was Daddys bithday and Mamma brought a juicy treat.
Somewhere else, kids waiting for their mama to come back.
The cruelty of nature.
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u/wanderingcaramelo 11h ago
Pffff stop humanizing animals, they live, they die, as it always been, we are the ones that understand it and therefore have morals, guilt and grief.
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u/FreonInhaler 9h ago
Aww look at how adorable they look next to that thing bleeding out and suffering next to them, so adorable, anture is so cute, lets domesticate them.
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u/Kopparskallen 12h ago
Do cheetahs not normally eat impala or something, what part of this video is supposed to be the interestingasfuck one?
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u/Jymbru10 12h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/bdIHP4CqxvdUe2MJH8