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This female roamed through the same area as had the dead male . Do snow leopard travel in pairs as some naturalists assert ? During my wanderings I came across twenty - nine sets of tracks of which twenty - five were of solitary ...
This female roamed through the same area as had the dead male . Do snow leopard travel in pairs as some naturalists assert ? During my wanderings I came across twenty - nine sets of tracks of which twenty - five were of solitary ...
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Not that young males lack in- terest , but whenever one tarries near a female he is displaced , the mere approach of a powerful adult usually being enough to cause retreat . If not , a horn threat or lunge forces him to flee .
Not that young males lack in- terest , but whenever one tarries near a female he is displaced , the mere approach of a powerful adult usually being enough to cause retreat . If not , a horn threat or lunge forces him to flee .
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This female was obviously not in full heat or the adult male would not have permitted a young one access to her . However , the incident was typical in several ways . The female made no effort to escape the male ; in fact , she seemed ...
This female was obviously not in full heat or the adult male would not have permitted a young one access to her . However , the incident was typical in several ways . The female made no effort to escape the male ; in fact , she seemed ...
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User Review - Stbalbach - LibraryThingI'd never heard of Schaller before but wanted to read it because it concern the same 1970s trip Peter Matthiessen was on when he wrote The Snow Leopard. Apparently Schaller was at the time considered ... Read full review
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| Title | Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya |
| Author | George B. Schaller |
| Photographs by | George B. Schaller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (Australia), 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0233972153, 9780233972152 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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