Rare footage of snow leopards
July 2013. An incredibly rare piece of video footage has emerged from China, where a video of three snow leopards together in the same place has been captured.
The video of the leopards was captured in the mountains of Yushu Autonomous Province on the border of Tibet. To put this in context, the first photo of a snow leopard in the wild wasn't taken until the renowned naturalist George Shaller snapped on in 1970.
There are thought to be a maximum 7000 snow leopards alive in the world, though some estimates go as low as a half of that, spread across and around the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges in Central Asia.
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