It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to the Cheetah than this mother and four cubs we saw in the Masai Mara of Kenya in 1991. She had killed a Thomson's Gazelle and all five were eventually so full they could manage no more. And for physiologists a perfect example of gastric accommodation. Nothing looks more uncomfortable than a carnivore which has eaten so much that bursting seems the only possible outcome.
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