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Camera Trap Art from Afghanistan

Posted by Richard Conniff on December 30, 2011

Camera traps around the world have been accumulating some spectacular and revealing images of wildlife, without disturbing the animals.  Here’s the latest.  A Wilderness Conservation Society camera trap caught this image of a snow leopard mother and cub on a craggy peak in Afghanistan’s Sarkund Valley.

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This entry was posted on December 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm and is filed under Biodiversity, Conservation and Extinction, Cool Tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Camera Trap Art from Afghanistan”

  1. Jamesen Miller said

    January 9, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Awesome. Thinking of Peter Mathiessen’s epic Himalayan sojourn, wherein he only saw footprints, never the cat itself.

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