NYT: Rare photo of snow leopard in Afghanistan

[Cougarcat]

Check this out! It's a gorgeous photo of a snow leopard, coincidentally published today . 🙂 Snow leopards are notoriously difficult to photograph.

 

[Abstract]

Geez, I thought this was going to be a joke, and we'd see a photo of Afghanis waving around their copies of OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. 😱 Or worse, a photoshopped photo.

 

[jmann]

Beautiful? Yes Coincidence? Maybe.

 

[SactoGuy18]

Geez, I thought this was going to be a joke, and we'd see a photo of Afghanis waving around their copies of OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. 😱 Or worse, a photoshopped photo.

You should look at the reader comments in the article--they're wondering the same thing, too. 😉

 

[CorvusCamenarum]

A friend of mine works at a zoo with big cats - she's going to love this.

 

[niuniu]

Also thought this was going to be a SL joke 😛

 

[anjinha]

Geez, I thought this was going to be a joke, and we'd see a photo of Afghanis waving around their copies of OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. 😱 Or worse, a photoshopped photo.

Also thought this was going to be a SL joke 😛

You're all a bunch of geeks. 😛

 

[jaw04005]

To be honest, I never realized snow leopards were endangered until Apple decided to name their OS after them. I hope they throw a few million toward the Snow Leopard Trust as a goodwill gesture.

 

[Designer Dale]

Interesting videos and info on the real big cat at these links.

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/captive/snowleopards.htm

http://snowleopard.org/about

Dale

 

[Marble]

What a handsome animal.

 

[Gregg2]

Also thought this was going to be a SL joke 😛

So did I. And I'm not Greek.

 

[Cougarcat]

To be honest, I never realized snow leopards were endangered until Apple decided to name their OS after them. I hope they throw a few million toward the Snow Leopard Trust as a goodwill gesture.

I wish they would. All of Apple's big cats are endangered, but they haven't done anything. Maybe when OS X is on its way out and the last big cat name is announced, they'll announce something. That would be cool.

If you want to read an amazing book about big cat conservation, I recommend checking out Life In the Valley of Death by Alan Rabinowitz. He essentially convinced a dictatorship to create the largest tiger reservation in the world (while battling cancer at the same time). Very inspirational story.

 

[laughingperson5]

Geez, I thought this was going to be a joke, and we'd see a photo of Afghanis waving around their copies of OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Win... I think. But still awesome comment. 😀

 

[leomac08]

wow! OP u really fool me there, (thinking i would see a 10.6 snow leopard, not a real one!!!!!! lmao!!!!!!)

the snow leopard is amazing 😀

 

[chrono1081]

Aw..Pretty kitty 🙂

Hopefully when they get hungry they feed on the terrorists hiding up in those mountains 😉

 

[leomac08]

Aw..Pretty kitty 🙂

Hopefully when they get hungry they feed on the terrorists hiding up in those mountains 😉

lmfao!

 

[ucfgrad93]

What a beautiful animal.

 

[tabasco70]

Geez, I thought this was going to be a joke, and we'd see a photo of Afghanis waving around their copies of OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. 😱 Or worse, a photoshopped photo.

WIN


The snow leopard pictures in National Geographic are also really nice.

 

[BuiltforSin]

What a beautiful animal.

This.