Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.
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Category: Cats • Photography
Posted on: May 16, 2008 8:57 AM, by Brian Switek
I've been lucky enough to get a few halfway-decent photographs of snow leopards during my regular visits to the Bronx zoo, but they're absolute rubbish compared to the photography in the feature "Out of the Shadows" in the latest issue of National Geographic. Indeed, snow leopards are among my favorite felids and the photography by Steven Winter shows them at their best.
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I remember being at my local zoo when our resident snow leopard female had about half-grown cubs. The kids were play-attacking each other down below, and mom was relaxing up on some rocks where they couldn't get to her. Suddenly, for whatever reason, she sat up and looked at the cubs, her body language saying as plain as day: "Don't make me come down there and separate you!"
Now, I might be accused of anthropomorphism...except that the cubs settled right down. For about five minutes.
Posted by: MMOToole | May 16, 2008 10:33 AM
At the St Louis Zoo years ago the tigress had cubs, and one of them jumped out on her head as she came around a bush. She looked SO tired of being a mother just then....
Posted by: Tina Rhea | May 16, 2008 6:41 PM
There's also a short video where Steve Winter explains what he had to do to get these shots:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player?titleID=1531274057
Posted by: marilyn Terrell | May 20, 2008 12:41 AM