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| Tytler, H.C. | |
| Strange accident to a snow leopard | |
| 1908 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (18): 899-899 | |
In May 1906 whilst shooting in Westeru Hundes I came on a dead snow leopard which had met its death in a curious way. On leaving Nilang village 11,300 ft. in the Jadh Ganga valley and which was deserted at the time of the year, my wife and I started for our next camp up the valley. The road on leaving the village follows the river bed for some considerable way. The bed of the river here is broad and shingly and along this shingle bed close to the hill side a small stream about six feet wide, having its origin in some springs about 500 yards or so from the village, has cut its way joining the main river close to the village. The load coolies were ahead of us and as they crossed the small stream near the springs we saw one of them stop and pull out something which looked like a leopard's tail, he apparently did not think much of it as he dropped it and went on. On reaching the spot we saw a fine snow leopard, which turned out to be a female, lying in the water. I had her taken out of the water and told the Shikaree to have a pull at her hair fully expecting the animal to be rotten and the hair to come away in handfuls, but to my surprise not a hair came out and to my delight on carefully examining the animal we found her to be quite fresh; on taking the skin off we discovered the cause of death. |
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