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    New Survey Snaps Amazing Images of Snow Leopards, Prey

    Amazing new video and still images of snow leopards and their prey were captured during the first-ever survey of snow leopard prey in Bhutan's newest national park.

    The new footage includes snow leopards engaging in scent-marking, which marks a leopard's turf, and a sub-adult snow leopard. The pictures are valuable because these elegant and elusive creatures aren't easy to photograph: Last year, scientists captured the first images of snow leopards in Siberia, and a rare image of a mother and cub in the Afghanistan mountains.

    Snow leopards have even been known to steal wildlife cameras.

    The new survey in Bhutan also took pictures of other species, such as a healthy population of blue sheep, which is the main food source for snow leopards. These new images are the first pictorial-based evidence that snow leopards are thriving in Wangchuck Centennial Park, a vital snow leopard corridor between Jigme Dorji National Park in the West and Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary in the East. Field biologists from the Government of Bhutan and the conservation group WWF captured more than 10,000 images during the camera trap survey.

    The survey was focused on snow leopard prey species, but the scientists also captured images and footage of the Tibetan wolf, threatened Himalayan serow, musk deer, wild dog, red fox, Pika, pheasants and several birds of prey.

    "The findings are phenomenal as these are the first snow leopard images recorded in Wangchuck Centennial Park," said WWF's Rinjan Shrestha, who led the survey team. "It suggests that the network of protected areas and corridors is helping to link local snow leopard populations, which will be invaluable to ensure long-term persistence of snow leopards in the region."

    Snow leopards are elusive and endangered, with around 4,500 to 7,500 in the wild. Bhutan is the only country on Earth where the habitat of snow leopards and tigers intersect. It's unknown how many exist there, but it's critical to find out as threats are mounting — from retaliatory killing from herders, loss of habitat to farmers and poaching for their pelts.

     

    14 comments

    • Kitten  •  Duluth, Georgia  •  3 mths ago
      They are beautiful. I'm glad they were able to get pictures of the momma and cub.
    • Joe  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      pics you idiots.
      • mlod2 3 mths ago
        Go Flyers!!
      • -Kzer0- 3 mths ago
        try clicking the linked text, #$%$.....
    • chris m  •  3 mths ago
      I was looking forward to seeing a smazing photo. (sic)
    • czar  •  Reno, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      why on earth would they say there are amazing photos captured and then not bother to show us said amazing photos thats why i came here.
    • Joel  •  3 mths ago
      Yahoo's lazy editors have done it again. Where are the stupid pictures?
      • laethyn 3 mths ago
        it's a livescience article. Not a yahoo article.
      • -Kzer0- 3 mths ago
        besides,...most SMART people actually click the linked text to see the pictures BEFORE complaining.........
      • Joel 3 mths ago
        @Laethyn - It's Yahoo's responsibility to either reject the article, or add the images.

        @-Kzer0- Which link? Do I have to click them all? Which one has the photos, dipsh/t?
    • Christopher  •  3 mths ago
      Smazing must mean invisible.
    • Mindy  •  3 mths ago
      Thank you, Yahoo, for the "smazing" nonexistent images of snow leopards in Bhutan. Thank you, as well, for including some links to pictures of snow leopards taken previously, in Afghanistan and Siberia. Not what I expected when I clicked on the article. Every day, you make more and more stupid errors like these, and I am that much closer to switching to a news source that actually has, and utilizes, editors. :)
    • Trac  •  3 mths ago
      "New smazing images of snow leopards, prey" you would think someone would catch on to an autocorrect by now?
    • David44149  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds like a very successful survey by any standard. It should really help to understand the entire ecosystem.

      One thing not mentioned here but which I have to wonder is, did they find any new species of animals? Given teh remoteness of the area and the number of photographs, it would not surprise me if they did.
    • Stephen  •  Midlothian, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      LOL There are pics. You just have to click the links. Everyone remember what a link is? Yahoo is trolling you lazy folks for the lolz.
      • Chris 3 mths ago
        ......thats the whole point! nobody wants to go internet hopping to look at some #$%$ pictures. really?
    • Joe 6Pack  •  3 mths ago
      But, no pictures. Way to go you yahoos. No wonder your company is a loser.
      • -Kzer0- 3 mths ago
        maybe you should learn how to work the internet before you type.......
      • laethyn 3 mths ago
        uhh. It's a livescience article.
      • Joe 6Pack 3 mths ago
        Uh, so what if it's a "livescience" article, #$%$ They've got half a dozen links, which ones are about the headline and article specifically?
    • chrisp  •  3 mths ago
      smazing, I never knew Afghanistan had snow leopards. Very cute!
    • BrianE  •  West Fork, Arkansas  •  3 mths ago
      Thanks again Yahoo. Write a story about pictures and dont post a single on or even give a link to see pictures. Keep up the loosey work yahoo.
    • Brad  •  3 mths ago
      Why does Yahoo write articles about great photos that were captured and then they on't include them with the article?
      Going to Google now.
      • laethyn 3 mths ago
        yahoo didn't write the article. LiveScience did.
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