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This is a snow leopard captured by remote camera in Afghanistan. A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have discovered a surprisingly healthy population of these elusive big cats. (Credit: Wildlife Conservation Society)

1 posted on 07/14/2011 2:35:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Let’s export our environmentalists and our EPA over to Afghanistan to save the snow leopard. That’ll destroy their country from within.


2 posted on 07/14/2011 2:39:01 PM PDT by George from New England (Escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Red Badger

And here all this time I thought a snow leopard was a cougar in the lounge of a ski chalet....


3 posted on 07/14/2011 2:39:27 PM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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Of course, I'm sure someone in Afghanistan is using a recent Mac.


4 posted on 07/14/2011 2:40:08 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Red Badger
I thought this was snow leopard:



5 posted on 07/14/2011 2:40:10 PM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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Special cat/big cat PING on behalf of Slings And Arrows. :)=^..^=


7 posted on 07/14/2011 2:42:42 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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Special cat/big cat PING on behalf of Slings And Arrows. :)=^..^=


8 posted on 07/14/2011 2:44:01 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Red Badger
Peter Matthiessen's "Snow Leopard," one of the most melancholic and moving travel manuscripts in the contemporary library.
9 posted on 07/14/2011 2:44:18 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Red Badger

Pretty cool.


10 posted on 07/14/2011 2:45:06 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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The bad news is the snow leopards are eating the endangered snow owls.


11 posted on 07/14/2011 2:45:34 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
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To: Red Badger

I found this out while watching Planet Earth on Discovery about three years ago.


17 posted on 07/14/2011 3:28:34 PM PDT by rabidralph
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Roh, tank goodness! I was aflaid of running out of aplodisiacs!

18 posted on 07/14/2011 3:47:50 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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Snow leopards are truly beautiful creatures.


21 posted on 07/15/2011 12:22:50 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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