[thecodont]

Cool cat.

[Biggirl]

Over to you Slings and Arrows. :)=^..^=

[hosepipe]

The people that live in the range of the Snow Leopard care very little for human life.. Animals are just food and clothing.. Western ideas are foreign to them.. They are not very civilized..

[bunkerhill7]

In early 1990`s there was a snow leopard from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Zoo. He was in a steel barred cage.
One day I took an Afghani mujhadeen fighter wounded in fighting against the Russians and his family to a trip to that zoo.
When he saw the snow leopard in the cage, he started talking to it in pashtu. The snow leopard got up and started making purring sounds kinda and rubbing up against the bars. I asked the Afghani Fighter “What did you say to the snow leopard?”- He said - “I talked to him. ‘Hello- How are you?’ I know this cat from my country because we tame them there in the high mountains .- He`s a tamed cat- he shouldn`t be in a cage.” True story.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time in Afghanistan by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists and Afghan veterinarians conducting research during a recent expedition.

Beautiful and very rare animals. I hope the research is worth the stress caused for the snow leopards - it's not like they can afford to kill a few just to get info on their movements. And hopefully some Talibani doesn't decide to track the snow leopards via the transmitters in the collars and blow them up with an RPG because he thinks they insulted the Prophet or some such.

[Biggirl]

My Mac is run on the snow leopard. :)=^..^=

[jimfree]

Isn’t that some kind of violation of the “Prime Directive”? Now they will go back and talk about how they were captured by aliens, poked, prodded, and had their thoughts read.

[Safetgiver]

the snow leopard faces threats that are bringing this species closer to extinction...The Taliban will probably cut his head off.