I watched cheetah episode because I adore big cats. Sadly, poor Script gives the WRONG facts , wrong current data & erroneous biology especially why the cheetah became the fastest land animal. Cheetahs evolved to catch small fast twisting Thomson gazelle, their main prey & reason why cheetah body evolved thru millennia esp snapping spine launching 1 leap to 20 feet, to catch that specific gazelle. Hyenas pose greatest threats to cheetahs in wild, especially since 2005 as lions face extinction.
In 2022, there less than 1,500 wild cheetahs left and every year 10% - 20% continue to vanishing due to habitat loss, prey loss, & ppl interference.
Completely vast pristine wild habitat shown here has NOT existed in the past 17 years. Cheetah males do not kill cheetah cubs to mate like lions.
Omitted fact is Cheetah tail is the rudder that allows sudden twists & turns required to trip speedy Thompson gazelle. Cheetah do hunt other prey differently like young Warthogs, newborn deer.
Only one out of ten hunts are successful for best cheetahs. Many do starve & are forced to scavenge. There have been some Cheetah super moms well documented. Male Cheetahs comprise into a coalition, the 5 "Beastie Boys" being the most famous and died by 2020.
Narrator sounds like a very poor copycat of Tom Hiddleston, and narrates in dull monotone voice. Hunting water is very difficult for cheetahs, & delta has dried up due to human farming sucking it dry & climate change turning delta into desert with intense droughts, causing dry season to last YEARS not 8- 15 months. No "5 million wilderbeast migration" anymore, just 500k + others = 1 million animals total that continue to dwindling yrly in size. Most expensive private game parks have manmade eco diversity. No gore here so it's rated G.
Most offensive is this series states it's dated "2024," while showing OLD AFRICA clips; narrator fails to give new data and all the new dangers cheetahs face daily, humans being the greatest threats; ie., Typical for 70 TRUCKS with engines to circle a successful mother cheetah kill while her hiding cubs wait for her quiet chirp but cubs cannot hear her repeated calling over the bombast of human noise pollution. Thus, the mother/ cubs are either killed by hyena / predator or she must Abandon her kill, hence she cannot produce milk nor feed her cups.
Apple earth @ Night proved Cheetahs are becoming nocturnal due to constant tourist invasion bad behavior that disregards their welfare since yr 2000. Lack of Thompson gazelles prey bc ppl set thousands of daily traps for free meat is certainly not helping wild cheetahs nor an any wild predator either.
None of these VIP current facts are stated this dull silly series of recycled clips that are not even enhanced.
Def a SKIP it series.
BBC 20 Yr old The Hunt & Africa (2012) are far superior docu films of top predators & mammals.
