Discussion on answer by Oddthinking: Did a cheetah refuse to race against dogs?

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A: Did a cheetah refuse to race against dogs?

No. Snopes explains it is from an advert from Audi:

Shadur

Key to this behavior being that Cheetahs are chase predators and will only run after something if they're currently hungry and judge that the running thing is worth the calories they're likely to burn chasing it down, while most dog breeds can easily be trained to pursue anything that runs from them.

Rob Watts

@Shadur the Snopes link mentions that at least one real race between Cheetahs and Greyhounds has happened. It's not that you can't get a Cheetah to run in a race, but rather that for this picture they didn't even want it to run.

Oddthinking

@Shadur: [citation-needed]

Michael Richardson

A Disney 1989 movie, "Cheetah", had a race between a Cheetah and Greyhounds. That was very loosely based on the 1970 book "The Cheetahs". I'm unsure whether that was entirely fictional.

Acccumulation

Is the "no" to "did this race happen", to "is this photoshopped", or to both?

Kami Kaze

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My gut feeling would say that this is photoshopped. The cheeta seems out of place in the shadows, but I am not expert.

gerrit

@Acccumulation The image looks too old to be photoshopped. Photoshop first came out in the late 1980s, this image may well be older than that.

Boluc Papuccuoglu

@Acccumulation: "Yes." - "Yes what?" - "Yes Sir!"

Ivo Beckers

@gerrit "to photoshop" something doesn't mean that Photoshop needs to be used for it. The verb is named after it yes, but any kind of photo editting is called photoshopping

nick012000

I think it's entirely possible that this Audi advertisement simply took a photo from a real race and used it for their advertisement.

CodeCaster

@Ivo Adobe would like you to believe differently: "Trademarks are not verbs. Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software. Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.". Not sure whether they're going for the Streisand Effect there though.

ilkkachu

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@CodeCaster I like how they say "enhanced" there, instead of "modified", "altered" or "edited to not represent any actual situation".

Haem

@CodeCaster The manufacturers of Dumpster®-model garbage containers and Band-aid®-brand self-adhesive bandages might say the same.

idmean

@gerrit What are you saying? That it's impossible to photoshop a photo taken that a long time before Photoshop came out? Also, you can certainly use Photoshop to make a photo look like it came out in that time period.

gerrit

@idmean Of course one can use Photoshop later :) The ad is apparently from 2000, so it might have been "digitally enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software".

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