Cheetah Attacked by Meerkats - Neatorama

This is something that could only happen at a zoo or preserve. This took place at Cheetah Experience in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Kinji the Cheetah loves the meerkats at the conservation center, but the meerkats, well, they don't like anyone. And they can be pretty fierce for their size.

See, the meerkats are protecting their family from a dangerous predator by attacking Kinji whenever he comes around. To Kinji, it's a fine little back scratch from his little friends. He just purrs and enjoys it. Dolph C. Volker of the center says,

A cheetah purr is quickly becoming my favorite sound in the world... so relaxing, calming, and something that penetrates the psyche down to the rudimentary soul for me. A purrs is designed to calm tensions; letting others around them know a friendly cat is present.

-via Tastefully Offensive

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Frankenstein's Monster did have a name. Victor dubbed him "Adam" , though he was never actually addressed by that name.

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I'm a Romanian. I don't mind talking about Dracula. B(r)am!

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Regarding the pronunciation, you got it halfway correct: the 'ei' in the commonly used 'Frankenstein' is correct, and the 'Fronk-un' is correct. Add a 'sh' to that, and you'll get the proper German phonetics of 'Fronk-un-shtein'. Didn't know he was named 'Adam', Monica. Well done.

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@Barking_Bud- Frankenstein is my favorite novel of all time (I've probably read it 50 times), so it wasn't that hard for me to know that little tidbit. ;) In the novel, after Victor sees what he's created, he abandons the name 'Adam' in his writings and refers to him only as the abomination, the creature, the monster, etc.

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@Monica - The first half of my post was meant for the generic article reader and Miss C, it wasn't meant to be smart-allecky towards you :). And after that I just wanted to thank you for your contribution.

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Actually, I assumed Miss C was making a joking allusion to Gene Wilder's character Fredrick Frankenstein in "Young Frankenstein," who insisted on that pronunciation in the beginning of the movie to divorce himself from his grandfather's reputation.

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ror Gorira sounds kind of lacist.

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Sorry to have misinterpreted then :p But hey, it's the Internet after all: German phonetics are awesome, all Frankenstein movies kick ass, and now 56% of us will probably watch a cute kitty video LOL

Sidenote: I am not German myself.

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