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Snow Leopard hunt by Adam Riley (INDRI Ultimate Wildlife Tours)

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Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. At this very spot, on our first afternoon in the park, and within half an hour of officially beginning our Snow Leopard search, our expert local spotter had exclaimed “ Shan !!” – the Ladakhi name for Snow Leopard.

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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

4 The Love Of Animals

Nat Geo Wild presents the third annual Big Cat Week starting Sunday, Dec 9th. From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! Tune in Sunday to watch the first ever capture and release of an endangered snow leopard in Afghanistan!

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A couple of facts :D

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• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Which diverged and evolved first out of Modern Big Cats ( Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars and Snow Leopards) ?

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Top 10 Rarest Big Cats ( Pantherines , Acinoyx and Puma )

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Cause an Uproar

4 The Love Of Animals

Like so many of you, we love the majestic big cats in the world. Big cats in the world need our help. Everything from lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya, the big cats all need our help. So of course we wanted to help spread the word about the Cause an Uproar initiative.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

10,000 Birds

During the Pleistocene, Dholes were found across the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, sharing their space with sabre-toothed cats. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. If they can survive next to such neigbours, how come they are endangered?

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