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Spot the predator: Would YOU be able to tell if a snow leopard was stalking you?
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Posted on 04/01/2014 10:19:46 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports; Travel
KEYWORDS: hiking; himalayas; kittyping; snowleopard
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To: Morgana

I doubt it since they are so elusive.


21 posted on 04/02/2014 1:51:36 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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