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A female Snow Leopard or Ounce pads across thick snowpack and reaches its Ibex kill, to devour the next installment of its meal. It inspects the snow that has red patches form the Ibex blood and proceeds to initiate its meal. Snow Leopard with 6 foot long tail lunches on an Ibex in Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh, in mid-winter chill. The meat must be stone cold by now, but that does not deter the Huewal. The Snow Leopard even takes a pee in the snow, leaving a wet melted patch! Almost concealed in their high altitude habitat, and well camouflaged against rock and ice, as they cross a steep scree slope, punctuated by snow tongues, a habitat rife with rock fall risk, a Snow Leopard mother leads the way on a hunt, while her two little cubs follow, learning the ropes. The Ounce's tail is nea