Today’s highlight came first thing in the morning – watching the cheetahs run! Back at the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre we lined up along a short fence. A lure system had been set up – the same as for greyhound racing (not that I’ve ever seen that). The lure was simply some bits of red and white plastic tape affixed to a taut wire loop that stretched about 200 yards. The staff brought three cheetahs, one by one. They let the cheetah out of the back of the station wagon and turned on the lure, which zipped along the wire at 70mph. The cheetah bounded after it, up and back, racing directly in front of us in the blinking of an eye; he was rewarded with meat treats. Apparently sometimes a cheetah doesn’t feel like
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