Spot the predator: Would YOU be able to tell if a snow leopard was stalking you?

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[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: Spot the predator: Would YOU be able to tell if a snow leopard was stalking you? Try to find the animal in these photographs

These rare photographs of wild snow leopards reveal just why the elusive animal is so hard to spot.

Pictured strolling across the face of a mountain, the endangered big cat is barely visible against a background of rock and shale.

Experienced wildlife photographer David Jenkins, 41, braved temperatures of over minus 20 degrees centigrade in an effort to get a glimpse of the creature.

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But after two weeks enduring the harsh climates of the Indian Himalayas, David finally got a break in the form of a boy from a local village who had noticed blood on the coats of nearby sheep, a sign of snow leopard activity.

[Morgana]

Very large Kitty Ping!!!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

That's right, you go right ahead and do that... then the TEXAS Chapter of FR is going to be deciding what's up around here and "rain the metal pain." /h

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

oops. Wrong thread. Sorry. !

[Constitution Day]

An actual picture of the snow leopard is below:

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[Morgana]

Been chased by too many snow leopards in Texas I see! ;)

[dalereed]

same thing as big foot in frozen country!

[Uncle Chip]

Yeh —

He would be the one moving.

[null and void]

That’s why I upgraded to Mavericks...

[glorgau]

Snow Leopard = MacOS 10.6

Wildly out of date.

[ken5050]

I thought I saw MH 370 in the first pic..

[FroggyTheGremlim]

We have a Snow Leopard at the Pittsburgh Zoo.

Picture from Here

[bravo whiskey]

i can tell because it's big and noisy.

[Ingtar]

Actually, this was a rather fun exercise. Difficult to spot. Snow Leopards are well designed.

[Rockpile]

In the second still photo at the DM link check out the rock troll directly underneath the cat.

[huldah1776]

LOL. snow leopards are my favorite big cat. thanks for the laugh.

[Constitution Day]

You’re welcome! I couldn’t resist. :)

[Sequoyah101]

I am red / green color blind. I see color but differently.

One of the unusual characteristics of such color blindness though is that we can spot aminals in their natural camo pretty easily. I had no problem finding the cat(s) in every picture. They were even obvious.

If there are tree rats around I usually win the Saturday squirrel hunt pot at the local store.

When it comes to the numbers in those dot tests though, I can’t see many of them. Makes me wonder who and how they came up with that test.

It is an interesting exercise.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Celtic Conservative]

Seriesly, whitewalls? Oh yeah it's camoflaged and stealthy and... wait a minute, is that a russian APC or are we being stalked by a '52 DeSoto with a cannon?

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