Snow leopard camouflage. Photo by Kim Murray, Snow Leopard Trust.
We all know snow leopards have fabulous camouflage with their gray, white and yellowish fur and the spotty rosettes. But this really proves it. Kim Murray, the Snow Leopard Trust’s Assistant Director of Science took these photos and showed them to some school kids and asked where the snow leopard was hiding. They couldn’t find it, neither could I. (I squinted for over ten minutes at my computer screen).
Here it is!
Snow leopard revealed! Photo by Kim Murray, Snow Leopard Trust. Kim's working on the SLT's 10 year research project in the South Gobi, Mongolia.
Most elusive cat on earth. Can leap seven times their body length. Longest tail of any cat to protect in freezing cold and give balance on steep cliffs. Live at highest altitudes for any cat on earth – to 5000 metres. Best night vision of any cat. Can travel 40 kilometres in one night.
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"For epochs to come the peaks will still pierce the lonely vistas, but when the last Snow Leopard has stalked among the crags and the last Markhor has stood on a promontory, his ruff waving in the breeze, a spark of life will have gone, turning the mountains into stones of silence."
George B. Schaller, “Stones of Silence- Journeys in the Himalaya” 1979.
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Ok, well I know I’m going blind now. Even after being told I’m still not sure that is a leopard. Time to go get my eyes checked.
I feel the same, Sara! 😉
Amazing. Now we know why it is such an elusive species to study.