A family with young children was chased by cheetahs after they got out of their car at a Dutch safari park.
In a video recorded by another car visiting Beekse Bergen wildlife park outside Tilburg, a French family can be seen fleeing as the wild animals starts to hunt them.
A spokesperson for the safari park said they inform visitors about the risk of leaving their cars in several languages throughout the park.
The family of five can be seen running back to their car as the cheetahs leap at them. The tourists filming the video are clearly in distress and can be heard screaming ‘no, no, no’ as they follow the car.
Sylvia de Graaf, who said she witnessed the incident on Monday, said: ‘The French family gets out of the car at least two times and seem completely unaware of the danger they are in.’
Sylvia said the family’s grandmother grabbed a three-year-old toddler as the big cats rushed towards him. She added that it was a ‘miracle’ that they managed to escape without a scratch.
Park manager Niels de Wildt told Dutch radio station NOS that the family had been ‘incredibly lucky’.
He added: ‘The cheetahs are on a food schedule so they are not extremely hungry and are not in the hunt.
‘In the first instance they have the same reaction as when someone rings in unexpectedly, they think, ‘Hey, something strange is happening in our territory’.
‘But in the end they do respond to this exceptional visit – and these people have been incredibly lucky.’
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