Vanishing Tracks: Four Years Among the Snow Leopards of Nepal |
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... sheep and goats of the Himalayan chain . He later wrote , in Stones of Silence : I met many animals , marmots and wolves and high altitude birds . But none possessed me as did the snow leopard , a rare and elusive creature which lured ...
... sheep and goats of the Himalayan chain . He later wrote , in Stones of Silence : I met many animals , marmots and wolves and high altitude birds . But none possessed me as did the snow leopard , a rare and elusive creature which lured ...
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... sheep's rump . It was a full - grown male bearing big , curving horns . Rod counted eight and a half rings , one for each year of the bharal's life . Without the scale we could only estimate its weight , at a minimum of 120 pounds . We ...
... sheep's rump . It was a full - grown male bearing big , curving horns . Rod counted eight and a half rings , one for each year of the bharal's life . Without the scale we could only estimate its weight , at a minimum of 120 pounds . We ...
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... sheep , their favorite prey item . There is a saying among mountain people : Where there are blue sheep or bharal , you will find the snow leopard . Both live above the tree line , and the ecology of predator and prey is linked by more ...
... sheep , their favorite prey item . There is a saying among mountain people : Where there are blue sheep or bharal , you will find the snow leopard . Both live above the tree line , and the ecology of predator and prey is linked by more ...
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