One Brave Woman

Ominivision1 · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:29 am Post subject: One Brave Woman

A woman and her cheetahs.

One Brave Woman

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

Yep, we will be reading about her in the future.

Suzanne · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

That's funny, I thought you were talkin bout me again....NO! I saw that movie the other day. How did she find so many cheetas in one place anyway? There were a heck of a lot of them there. All of them seemingly mature cats. Make ya wonder if that was set up somehow with trained cats or something. She was speaking in English but with a translator done in French? or something. The camera person was equally as brave (or stupid). Strangely she would fake running away, I would think running away would make them attack or chase you but they sort of balked at her. That was really weird. The whole thing is weird. Wonder if there is more on her somewhere....I want to investigate....if she's English, American or Aussie or whatever there must be more on her somewhere..

Suz

Suzanne · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

Found THIS on her. And a translation of the video audio;

Unfortunately, the clip appears to be spoken in English, then dubbed in French, so here is a translation of what Marlice Van Der Merwe is saying about her encounter:

If I lower myself down to their level, they'll approach as we appear to be be of similar size ... I'm doing this to show how cowardly they are, not to tease them ... But also, to get a rush of adrenaline ... As soon as you turn your back on them, they attack ... As soon as you look them in the eyes, they're afraid of you ... If you run, you're prey. But, if you turn around, they stop ... I think they've had enough

There's actually quite a lot of stuff on her on the search engines, interesting person really

Suz

ROADJOCKY · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

That woman has more nerve than an abcess tooth.I hope her luck stays with her. wtf

Vince · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

I think you are right Suz...they are definitely not a pack of wild Cheetah. I cannot imagine a wild Cheetah being so "comfortable" with her presence.

More likely than not they are on a habitat property of some sort and they have had quite a bit of contact with humans...but not enough to become docile and accepting of us.

Whichever way, she is certainly brave/crazy and very knowledgeable about their habits.

Cheers, Vince

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:25 am Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

It's all good. In this case DARWIN will win out and she will be food.

stovepipe · Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:41 am Post subject: Re: One Brave Woman

I saw a documentary once on a gent that was saving cheetah's in Africa. It was pretty interesting, very indepth and it was a life long effort. Forgot the gent's name but...