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13,000 years ago, the ice age cheetah was the pronghorn's greatest enemy.
在13,000年前的冰河時(shí)代，獵豹是叉角羚的天敵。
And pronghorn would have needed all their amazing speed.
叉角羚以其令人驚嘆的速度著稱。
The American cheetah was larger than its African cousin. But it had the same Achilles' heel.
美洲豹比非洲豹的體型要大。但他們的致命弱點(diǎn)相同。
A cheetah's high-performance muscles overheat in minutes, and unlike pronghorn, they can't switch to cruising speed.
獵豹高性能的肌肉會在幾分鐘內(nèi)變熱，和叉角羚不同的是，獵豹不能長時(shí)間保持這一速度。
So if the pronghorn managed to outrun the cheetah for the crucial first few hundred meters, it would probably survive.
所以如果叉角羚能在開始關(guān)鍵的幾百米內(nèi)跑過獵豹，那便有可能幸存。
The cheetah hasn't roamed the plains of North America for thousands of years, but pronghorn are still prime for the chase.
幾千年來，獵豹一直沒有在北美平原游蕩，而叉角羚在這場角逐中依然占據(jù)優(yōu)勢。
Other extinct links to Africa had been found in caves steep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
其他的一些與非洲相關(guān)聯(lián)的線索十分稀缺，但被發(fā)現(xiàn)于密蘇里州歐扎克山脈的懸崖峭壁中。
Preserved in mud were huge prints recreated here, more than 18 centimetres wide. What could have made them?
這里的淤泥中保存下來一些腳印，有18多厘米寬。這是什么動物的腳??？
They belonged to another ice age cat, the top cat of the plains, a lion.
他們是另一種冰河時(shí)代的貓科動物，也是美洲平原貓科動物的王者——獅子。
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