The cheetah chases. The girl freezes. A hunt is on in all its elegant menace and unemotional poetry. Life hanging by a tense thread as predator and prey enact an ancient dance of survival.
This everyday drama on an African savannah has infiltrated a Melbourne suburb. “Run,” pleads the eight-year-old girl to the scampering baby wildebeest on the iPad screen, but it’s not fast enough.
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