conservationists launch survey of elusive snow leopards

[chiver78]

Russian conservationists launch survey of elusive snow leopard


SAYLYUGEMSKY NATIONAL PARK, Russia — If you fly to the most remote corner of Siberia, drive for nine hours, cross another 60 miles of ice and hills in a sturdy Soviet jeep and climb a mountain, you just may see a snow leopard. Or maybe its footprint.

The endangered snow leopard is one of the most elusive and understudied of all big cats on the planet.

But this may change, thanks to a pioneering survey launched last month that aims to compile an exact headcount of all snow leopards in Siberia, down to the last cub.

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[wyouser]

So, if the elusive snow leopard granted you the priviledge of conducting a face to face survey would you find yourself in the middle if "breaking news" presenting a real exclusive? Or, as Virgil  believes, would we be reading your obituary as the crafty snow leopard granted rights to the exclusive survey in order to satisfy his desire to "eat in" that day??

[toomuchreality]

 What?  No comment from our Boy Wonder?!?  What's up with that?  Maybe he's losing his touch!