Watch this incredible video of a snow leopard stalking an ibex and leaping for it -- at the edge of a cliff. The cat holds on going off the cliff and for what seems like a 1,000 foot tumble down the mountain. Great slow-motion video after the full speed video.
I cannot imagine how long the photographer had to wait out there to capture this video.
One commenter says he saw this some time ago on National Geographic which would make sense.
I found a short version on the UK "The Sun" -- TO THE DEATH Incredible moment snow leopard chases down goat before both go somersaulting hundreds of feet down mountain. They also have this gif:
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2 posted on
02/13/2023 10:04:50 PM PST by
rdl6989
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The cat was spotted two days later retrieving the prey walking just fine
Cats are amazing I’ll give them that
4 posted on
02/13/2023 10:09:48 PM PST by
wardaddy
(Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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Oh much like many other people have a print of a snow leopard done by a fellow from Brentwood Tennessee
He’s been dead a while but he was prolific I can’t remember his name
5 posted on
02/13/2023 10:12:29 PM PST by
wardaddy
(Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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That was almost as crazy as grocery shopping at a Walmart in New Orleans......
Seriously, that was stunning footage. Amazing creatures and tough as nails.
7 posted on
02/13/2023 10:21:15 PM PST by
volunbeer
(We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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Snow leopards are such beautiful creatures.
8 posted on
02/13/2023 10:27:37 PM PST by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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That was crazy! I’ve never seen anything like that.
9 posted on
02/13/2023 10:30:33 PM PST by
rdl6989
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And he sticks the landing!
I give him 10.0 for Originality, 10.0 for Style and 9.8 for Form.
11 posted on
02/13/2023 10:36:43 PM PST by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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That is incredible. And that the Snow Leopard lived is amazing.
13 posted on
02/13/2023 10:52:34 PM PST by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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The thrill of victory... the agony of defeat.
Regards,
15 posted on
02/13/2023 11:17:21 PM PST by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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No mountainous hundred-foot drops were harmed in the making of this film.
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It’s life and death everyday on the slippery slope.
18 posted on
02/14/2023 1:20:38 AM PST by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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“...The cat was spotted two days later
retrieving the prey walking just fine...”
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How do they know it was the same cat?
20 posted on
02/14/2023 1:44:01 AM PST by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs.
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I’m amazed either survived that - especially that last fall where they both slammed down hard on solid rock. The big cat seemed unhurt which is just incredible.
22 posted on
02/14/2023 3:27:37 AM PST by
FLT-bird
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Big cat only used up 8 lives on that fall. I would be deader than dead. No wonder they say cats have 9 lives. Amazing. Should have died a dozen times on that fall.
23 posted on
02/14/2023 3:40:55 AM PST by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus
Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the
non-pantherine cheetah and cougar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_cat
Curiously, the snow leopard is more closely related to the tiger than to the (non-snow) leopard.
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