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Credit: Photograph by Thomas Vijayan. Source: nationalgeographic.com
This astonishing chase was captured by Thomas Vijayan in the Masai Mara in Kenya on the second-to-last day of his trip. The photograph shows a cheetah targeting a gazelle calf in what seems to be a deadly chase, with the dust formation framing the dramatic scene. However, the most incredible part of the story happened after this photograph was taken: the cheetah caught the gazelle but started playing with it as though it was its cub, setting it free to its mother sometime later.