This is what riding a cheetah must feel like. The Cincinnati Zoo strapped a GoPro onto their cheetah Savannah’s back. Video shows Savannah running at full speed and at slow motion. Via io9:
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden officials outfitted one of their cheetahs, Savannah, with a GoPro camera to capture what a cheetah in full run looks like. Zoo officials said putting the harness on Savannah was easier than you would expect, since all the cheetahs are hand-raised from a young age.
“We put it on Savannah and she could really care less,” said Alicia Sampson of the cat ambassador program at the zoo.
If Cincinnati Zoo sounds familiar to you, that’s probably because it came tragically to media attention recently when a child got into the gorilla enclosure and fell into the moat, forcing zookeepers to shoot an endangered gorilla. Via CNN:
Harambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound gorilla, carried the boy around its habitat for about 10 minutes in what the zoo’s dangerous animal response team considered a life-threatening situation, Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard said at a press briefing.
After the gorilla was shot with a rifle, the child was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, CNN affiliate WKRC reported.