Wednesday, September 22, 2010

First-Ever Baby Snow Leopard Filmed in Wild

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A snow leopard cub caught on camera.  
Image via the BBC.
Curiosity, fortunately, didn't kill this cat, but it did bring a young endangered feline right up to a BBC camera trap in the mountains of Bhutan, allowing the news network to film what is likely the first-ever footage of a baby snow leopard -- the "highest living of all big cats and ... among the most rare and elusive of all animals," according to the BBC -- in the wild.

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