August 29, 2004

• Snow Leopards are gorgeous. They share some habitat with another of my favorite beasties, the golden monkey.
• Oh, soooo beautiful!
• Don't forget Peter Matthiessen's amazing book. (Even though it's not really about snow leopards. Well, sort of.)
• Aww.
• Tenzin Palmo, who's mentioned in the above article.
• Aww.( ***NSFW***)
• Snow leopard and Golden Snub-nosed Monkey in Tibet.
• AwwArgh!!!
• Where slopes are high, and men are rare, And shadows jut with every rock, Snow leopards, hunted for their skin, Can ghost across a smowfield, stalk A buck on large and thick-furred paws. Their nostrils flare, their chests are deep, Adapted to a thinner air, Their tread is light as mist or gauze where mountains try to pierce the sky.
• Central Asia's tiny surviving group of snow leopards may soon lose a lifeline that is helping them cling to survival.
• Searching for the snow leopard.
• Cat lives in the heights. Cat dislikes being stared at. Cat doesn't need much oxygen in the air. Men come with cameras to film the elusive cat, which, alas, is endangered and rare.
• Dalai Lama campaigns for wildlife
• Snow Leopards in Love A special Valentine's for all the nice monkeys to see. Perhaps NSFW, I suppose, but then again, maybe it could be. /ponders. Enjoy.
• Rainer Maria Rilke - The Panther His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly—. An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.
• I wish you wouldn't do those 'tuggers', Granma. /sniffles
• Poetry is amazing. We should only elect politicians that can write poetry.
• Perhaps first we should find a bit less free with their poetic licence. Now, poetry in motion, such as a fine Arabian mare, perhaps. /nothing can equate my long ago filly. (a natural - all five gaits.)
• Tonight on PBS.
• snow leopard their enemy is not the snow nor the thin, high air but men who prize them only for the patterns of their hair
• Tibetans Respond to Dalai Lama's Call to Burn Animal Skins
• Wonderful PBS program! Saw it last night. I'm just astounded by the skills of the photographers and the equipment they lugged around for daily. Fascinating creatures. **leopard rubs face into overhead posts, turns around, pees on this one**
• Leo the snow leopard is US-bound
• he lubbly.
• Orphaned in Pakistan, exiled to the Bronx. Mothra bless ya, Li'l Leo.
• Eye of the Leopard (Not a snow leopard, but other leopards are good too.)
• Command the high treetops, and you'll have your monkey.
• Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow - it's quite enough! Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful? -- Peter Matthiessen
• Insurgency benefits Kashmir wildlife
• Island leopard deemed new species
• "It's incredible that no-one has ever noticed these differences." Duh, I can't believe there wouldn't have been a suspicion that the Island Leopard wasn't at least a subspecies! That coat is just beautiful! The colors are so intense and it looks so plushy. *me wants to touch the kitty but is afraid of her claws
• I know I am so dead if I ever encounter a big cat out in the wilderness because I don't think my fear will be enough to overcome my massive desire to pet and snorgle the giant kitty. at which time it will rip off my head. *sigh*
• Snow leopard hunting. Via.
• Out of the Shadows: The elusive Central Asian snow leopard steps into a risk-filled future.
• Snow leopard wins top photo prize
• Gorgeous. The pic further down the page of the black-crested macaque looks more like a painting than a photo.
• The expression on that macaque, I've seen it before.
• Rare Photo of Snow Leopard in Afghanistan
• Design a More Appealing Snow Leopard Box
• I lubs me some snow leopards.
• Cuteness in motion.
• While the web is buzzing over Mac’s Snow Leopard, the original really needs our attention and remains the most inspiring of all
• Cute Baby Snow Leopards at Woodland Park Zoo
• Russian PM's Encounter With Rare Snow Leopard
• Three Snow Leopard Cubs Born at Zoo Basel
• Endangered Snow Leopards Caught on Camera in Afghanistan
• A Forbidding Kingdom of Snow Leopards
• What a privilege to see one of these cats.
• The best thing about snow leopards
• Hidden cameras show rare snow leopards 'thriving'
• First Ever Video of Wild Snow Leopard Mother and Cubs
• Squeeeee!
• In Afghanistan, a quest to save the snow leopard
• This one good thing of snow leopard preservation may yet come from the billions squandered and wasted over there, so long as wildlife funding can sneak by...
• The world's first big cats came from Asia, not Africa