"Framed beneath a full moon, a cheetah prowls for impala and small game. Though these cats typically hunt during the day, they're clearly opportunists. 'Cheetahs are very creative,' says one researcher. 'Nothing they do surprises me.'"

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine)