That's the Cheetah Generation, and Africa's salvation rests on the backs of these Cheetahs.

The cheetah generation.

I call them the Cheetah Generation.

George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos

Boy, if you are looking after our livestock and you see a cheetah eating our goat cheetah is very nervous just walk up to it.

BJ And then cheetahs have crashed all the way down to 12,000.

The Cheetah Generation is a new breed of Africans who brook no nonsense about corruption.

We valued it as the number of seal pelts we could kill.

Now in the extraordinary time that we have worked with Legadema which is really over a five year period 10,000 leopards were legally shot by safari hunters.

Or the 1963 Jaguar It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time, but the owners love it.

I had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah, which you may have seen on stage yesterday.

And I know that with the Cheetahs, we can take Africa back one village at a time.

Go back to Africa's indigenous institutions, and this is where we charge the Cheetahs to go into the informal sectors, the traditional sectors.

Curious encounters were happening to me at the time I'd been accepting numerous invitations to speak on the design of the cheetah legs around the world.

Scissors are your clothes, glasses enable you to see things and keep you from being eaten by cheetahs or run down by automobiles, and books are, after all, your education.

Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa and calls on the Cheetah generation to take back the continent.

And he has a lot of experience with leopard seals. I have never seen one.

And it depended on if you were attacked by a lion or a leopard or a rhino or an elephant and when you had to run away, and when you couldn't run away, and when you had to climb a tree when you could never climb a tree.

All the leopard seal was doing it's just biting a balloon.

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And this bear swam out to that seal 800 lb. bearded seal grabbed it, swam back and ate it.

Now, what leopard seals do mostly is, they eat penguins.

This is sort of the munch of the penguins.

As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute, therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad.

Hunters in hunting zones and herdsmen in pastoral areas may apply for equipment with guns.

Hunting guns which hunters and herdsmen are equipped with may not be taken out of the hunting zones or the pastoral areas.

So we come around the cove in our little Zodiac boat, and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

Marcus The Panthers.

Boy Panthers?

When they're in rut they're similar to seals in the way, like, a seal has to open its nose to breathe.

The United Kingdom, as the depositary Government, reported on the numbers of the six species of Antarctic seal captured or killed in the Convention area (the sea south of 60 degrees latitude south) by States parties to the Convention during the period from 1 March 2000 to 28 February 2003.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous.

And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin, came under the boat, the Zodiac, starting hitting the hull of the boat.

Man is the hunter, woman is his game.

Photographer Paul Nicklin traveled to Antarctica to shoot a story on leopard seals.

Even the hunter gatherers used some elementary tools.

Rise and walk away like a panther.

C. Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals

You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac, floating in these icy waters, and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon.

Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful, I don't think I'll ever have another experience like I did with these leopard seals.

And tragically in 2003 , a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

A marine biologist was attacked and drowned by a Leopard Seal at Rothera Research Station in July 2003.

On 21 November, several shots were fired at an UNFICYP patrol inside the buffer zone by a Greek Cypriot hunter when he was asked to produce his hunting licence.

They've got those black sinister eyes and those spots on their body.

DH You can't get any better than that. All right. What I will do I will use my panther like reflexes.