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A herd of Ibex chews its cud in the luke-warm wintry sunshine, at 16, 000 feet in the Himalaya. A Snow Leopard mother, meanwhile, wakes up, even as her two cubs continue to sleep, and makes her way over to the rocky shelf above the Ibex, hoping to surprise them and make a kill. Th younger Ibex look up and spot her. She, meanwhile, decides to go back to sleep! Ibex rest in winter sun, while Snow Leopard emerges from rocky cave and takes a silent path in their direction As mother Snow Leopard looks to hunt down a Blue Sheep, the two little cub await her success. They sit sheltered in a rocky cave below a frozen waterfall. 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
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