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Watching a Cheetah Run in Slow Motion Is Still Pretty Damn Fast

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Since we’ve already seen how people capture a photograph of a cheetah running at full speed, it makes sense to see the other side: the slow motion footage of a cheetah running. It’s mother naturally beautiful.

https://gizmodo.com/if-you-ever-wondered-how-people-take-a-picture-of-a-che-5955108

Here’s how National Geographic pulled it off:

Using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second while zooming beside a sprinting cheetah, the team captured every nuance of the cat’s movement as it reached top speeds of 60+ miles per hour.

The extraordinary footage that follows is a compilation of multiple runs by five cheetahs during three days of filming.

Lovely. [vimeo via BoingBoing

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