{"id":321759,"date":"2026-03-04T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321759\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:18:08","slug":"shes-seen-something-a-cheetah-mum-must-distract-a-prowling-big-cat-away-from-her-cubs-will-her-risk-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321759\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShe\u2019s seen something\u2026.\u201d A cheetah mum must distract a prowling big cat away from her cubs. Will her risk pay off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Okavango Delta, Botswana, leopards, cheetahs and lions clash over territory and food. And these sagas are all documented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/when-is-big-cats-24-7-on-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC TV series Big Cats 24\/7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s returned for a second series, following familiar faces that we met in series one. One of the big cats we meet is Pobe, a cheetah who is successfully raising the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>As the cameras roll through the night, Pobe has caught another meal for her growing cubs.<\/p>\n<p>But as filmmaker and presenter Anna Dimitriadis says of the unfolding action, \u201cIt looks like she\u2019s going into a weird stalk mode. She\u2019s seen something\u2026 Oh God, I think that\u2019s a leopard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around 100 metres in front of her and the cubs, a male leopard is approaching, attempting to steal the food.<\/p>\n<p>But will Pobe be able to chase him off, as well as keep the kill for her cubs?<\/p>\n<p>Top image: Pobe the cheetah in series two of Big Cats 24\/7. Credit: BBC Studios\/Tom Parry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Okavango Delta, Botswana, leopards, cheetahs and lions clash over territory and food. And these sagas are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-321759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}