Tuesday, December 18, 2012

'Cheetahs on the Edge': Video of World's Fastest Runner | Redux

'Cheetahs on the Edge': Video of World's Fastest Runner

African Lion
African Lion by Just chaos
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Mesmerizing, isn't it? National Geographic, which shot this video for its November concern and supplied to share it with ABC News, mentions that cheetahs are the world 's fastest joggers, though they have not been able to outrun the farmers and hunters who have moved in on their native residencies in Africa and Asia. Fewer than 10,000 cheetahs are thought to survive in the wild. The animals that appear in "Cheetahs on the Edge" reside in the relative security of the Cincinnati Zoo. To make just what cinematographer Greg Wilson calls the director 's cut, he and a Hollywood team set up a camera on a 400-foot-long track-- and attempted to stay on par with the cheetahs as they raced along at more than 60 miles per hour, chasing after a piece of meat.

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Roff Smith

Overall Sentiment: 0.0704667

Relevance: 0.743149

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0.131686Roff Smith in the magazine.  They are efficient predators (be glad you’re not a gazelle), but they are the only big cats that cannot roar.  They are often crowded out by lions, which are bigger and more numerous.  They are, as Smith writes, “the most vulnerable of the world’s big cats, surprisingly rare and growing steadily rarer.”
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Cathryn Hilker

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Relevance: 0.523703

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0“I’ve watched cheetahs run for 30 years,” said Cathryn Hilker ...
0“I’ve watched cheetahs run for 30 years,” said Cathryn Hilker of the Cincinnati Zoo.  “But I saw things in that super slow-motion video that I’ve never seen before.”
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Greg Wilson

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Relevance: 0.511512

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Facility: Cincinnati Zoo.

Overall Sentiment: 0.0631193

Relevance: 0.74198

Continent: Africa

Overall Sentiment: 0.122271

Relevance: 0.471091

Continent: Asia.

Overall Sentiment: 0.160428

Relevance: 0.399901

City: Hollywood

Overall Sentiment: -0.0140698

Relevance: 0.446702

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