Those five cheetah boys need scant introduction having patrolled the plains and Conservancies of the Mara with impunity for almost four years. To see them perform takes time, hard time, proper time as they have taken sloth to a fatiguing level of frustration.

Time is the most potent commodity on safari. To locate early, then follow into the heart of the Conservancy, trying to anticipate behaviour and indeed quarry is class A game viewing.

Do they hunt as a cohesive unit … ? Probably not but when you have one with the gas of a wing but the strength of a wing forward you have a brutally efficient individual at the turnover. His colleagues then mauled their spoils (a hartebeest) into the shade of two Kicheche cruisers. There was a big crowd of onlookers: vultures, jackals and eagles but only two vehicles. Steve and Anita, how was your stay?
