The World's Fastest Runner

One of two videos from National Geographic's award-winning multimedia coverage of cheetahs in the magazine's November 2012 iPad edition. See the other: Combining the resources of National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo, National Geographic documented cheetahs in a way that's never been done before. Using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second while zooming beside a sprinting cheetah, the team captured every nuance of the cat's movement as it reac