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After spending the afternoon taking a long nap in a rock ledge cave, a mother Snow Leopard and cub wake up, stretch and yawn, slowly waking up and then the cubs cross a snowy slope and take a dump in the snow, in mid-winter Spiti freeze, even as the mother watches them proudly from her cave. After a long nap, mother Snow Leopard and cub take a dump in the snow, in mid-winter Spiti freeze 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.
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