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Pictures of the Week: April 26-May 2
Friday, May 2, 2008
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Pictures of the Week: April 26-May 2
In what looks like young offspring enjoying a mixed playgroup session together, is in reality a harsh life lesson. The Impala fawn is serving as target practice for the cheetah cubs in a hunting lesson organized by their mother. The cubs eventually killed the fawn.
Here is a second photo from this same scene that I had considered using.
Although I was initially drawn in by the composition and symmetry of the two cubs surrounding the young Impala like a pair of bookends, I chose to include the top photo because it told a more complete story with the mother cheetah standing by as one cub starts to chase the impala fawn as she starts to move. If you look closely, you can see the paw of the second cub on the Impala's back.
See my final edit of all of this week's best images in Pictures of the Week.
-Lee Van Grack
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I know it is nature, but this pic makes me want to cry knowing that baby is about to die when they are done "playing" with it.
6/3/08 11:40 PM