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The Daily Mail has published some cute photos of a group of cheetahs capturing a young impala and then playing with it rather than using it as a delicious meal.

Several photos show the impala being licked, pet, and temporarily joining the pack of cheetahs before sprinting away from the group. Check out the photos below.

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Photographed on the lower Suwannee River. Yesterday I got a chance to go out and shoot for the first time in months. These guys are hard to shoot because they’re so skittish. This one stood perfectly still and at first I wondered why. Then I saw a panther just at the edge of the woods walking north. I could just barely see him and hoped he would come out in the open, at last he never did. That was the second time that day I got a glimpse of the panther.

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Green Heron

Baby Alligator

Female Wood Duck

Male Wood Duck

Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Rhesus Monkey

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The Titan Arum is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. It was originally discovered by an Italian botanist, Odoardo Beccari, in Sumatra in 1878.

Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the Titan Arum is also known as carrion flower, or ‘corpse flower.

Which one is which?  Or can you name them?  They’re very close to the same height and build.  Three are shorebirds.  Their habitat is associated with shallow water.  The other is usually found on dry land.

“I only show the viewer that is interested in WILDLIFE, images from animals not captured and humiliated in zoos around the world. All my wildlife images are from Africa and taken over a 20+ year period.

I ignore photographic “rules” and try to give it to the viewer as I saw it at the time. If you see anything in or on the image that you dislike please accept it, it was present at the time I took the photo.

I will not alter an image, other than sharpening and lighting, just to get the approval of any so-called photographic expert. ” Arno Meintjes

Louise Meintjes PBase galleries and

Arno Meintjes’s PBase galleries

More Arno & Louise’s wildlife at flickr Here.

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