Oh my gosh, the cheetahs are so gorgeous. Nothing like riding through the thick of the brush and stumbling across two resting Cheetahs, (we had been tracking elephants.) Again, it is interesting to see the reactions of the horses: very alert and fearful at a deep level, not unlike the experience where there had been lions. The horses are still obedient and nibble on grass while we digested this remarkable scene. The cheetahs are brothers who were relocated to this reserve from an area where they were killing sheep. Thank goodness for the sheep farmer who called a wildlife relocation center rather than the usual way of taking care of the problem by killing them. One wears a radio tracking device. They allowed us to 'sneak' around them and view them from the front and the back. Our guide new the bachelor pair quite well, because he had fed and attended to them when they initially arrived at the reserve's holding area before their release. When we got a little bit too close, one of them spat at us, but made no attempt to get up and move away.
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