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Today is International Snow Leopard Day. :heart::heart::heart:

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A terrific two minute video featuring an attempted (and foiled!) nocturnal attack by a puma on a sheep pen. It was captured with a military-grade thermal night-vision camera.

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Wonderful to read — thanks!


Do see the new pawprints on the Mara returns to the Mountains thread. :cat:



And here's the thread on Mike Clelland and owls:
MIKE CLELLAND with Richard...

It's a good idea. I'll definitely get one, but some practice may be needed! Having it deep in one's backpack when there's a sudden encounter might not help much. :) (One would need a kind of...

Two anecdote, neither of them my own. :) The first isn't about big cats, but about bears — similar in some ways, of course.

This is a true story. A good friend of mine, when she was a little girl,...

That's not gonna happen. :)
[/QUOTE]Actually, that might have seemed unintentionally a little curt (it was intended to be light-hearted :heart:), and so my sincere apologies (especially to Dennis)...

That's not gonna happen. :)

Folks. here's a hot-on-the-heels update that has astonished and delighted me almost as much as our breakthrough mountain hike I shared here the other day.
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We did it again yesterday,...

Dear Friends, this thread has been created by copying over a handful of interesting posts — some slightly edited here to focus on the new topic — from Mara returns to the Mountains, where I shared...