Cheetah Chases Impala Antelope

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As said desperate times require desperate measures, an impala made a jump for it that will not soon be forgotten when it was targeted by two vicious cheetahs. While escaping the predator, the distressed animal was captured on camera leaping into a car full of tourists. When an an unexpected window of opportunity appeared, the terrified animal appeared to be seconds away from death. The animal had been chased by the cheetah along with its herd. When it it realized it was the only one left behind. It leaped into a nearby car which happened to have its windows rolled down, as the two ferocious animals appeared to have cornered the impala. When the impala jumped through the passenger-side window of a Toyota in front of her, 20 year old Samantha Pittendrigh happened to be filming the chase.

She said, ‘We started freaking out going crazy. We couldn’t believe it – we were absolutely dumbstruck. We had absolutely no idea what was going on. We watched the cheetah chasing the impala. We saw a few of them turn around in the bushes towards the road they were running from. All of a sudden we saw the impala jump out of the bushes and then someone started screaming ‘it is in the car, it is in the car. We heard a little girl screaming in the car. The boy sitting outside the car filming looked a lot younger, so it must have been a family. People in other cars screamed ‘open the door, open the door.’

One of the passengers managed to open a door in confusion and the impala is seen just seconds later trotting across the road to freedom. The cheetahs are just yards away but do not give chase. The footage was captured in Kruger National Park, South Africa. According to the park rules, you must stay inside your vehicle at all times.

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