(4/6) Snow Leopard of Pakistan - Beyond the Myth

[chrisrileyeels47]

That collar is an absolute load of crap.

[shamanprince091]

leave that cat alone you fucking idiots !!! take the collar off !!!

[smoky2004]

So they are planning on leaving the collar on the leopard for life? Not good, just for the sake of a study, how would that scientist dude like a tracking collar stuck around his neck?

[organicdarrin]

you creeps dont deserve to be in the presence of those beautiful animals

[ThomasWinkworth]

thts sad man

[thewylde89]

it would be a yank!!!

[jattboi88]

when was that collar put on anyways circa 1873? WTF?! don't they have better technology?

[jattboi88]

WOW what kind of an idiot put that collar there_that idiot should try wearing one and see how it feels!

[FrenchTheLlama1]

At 1:48 the cat's like "damn..."

Bahahaha

[sadgreen]

With all the crazy technology development in the past years, you would think that they could have come up with a thinner, less irritating collar...

[NauticTL]

The color has nothing to do with the problem of collar... It obviously affects the Leopards speed and balance which is vital for hunting. That Leopard mine as well starve to death. Makes me sick to see that cat wearing a thick ass collar.

[avaitionchick]

I could almost forgive the huge ass white collar but blue tags on the ear????? This leopard is gonna die bc it can't hide!!!!!!!!

[Yora21]

1:37 Oh SHIT!!! ^^

[AndrewSmith00000007]

You bet she is slow. That damn gigantic tag is holding her back from getting full speed. It probably also interfering her balancing ability. Ya" doing what wild snow leopard does" ONLY WITH SLUGGISH PACE. She'd probably die from starvation because of not getting any catch before you get your OH SO PRECIOUS DATA.

[lndigoLight]

I would hate being collared and tracked just to see how big my house is. ):

[Ace4Tree1]

Great series,thanks.Head 'scientist' Tom McCarthy seems to want to make a career by getting data fast from a lazy chair.The so called basic questions 2 & 3 (at 4:08 min - 4:14 min) are questions you don't need to tag her for.And non questions as Q.2 depends on how humans enter her realm ( friendly care or tagging) & Q.3 She doesn't know livestock,but she will find out it is easier pray if not guarded by humans.Tag this McCarthy guy so we can find out & find out why he asks silly questions.

[tipubhai]

These scientists are not helping our beloved leopard !

[JolieNuitNoire]

This collar isn't really bringing them real information.

The collar isn't camouflaged so their prey sees them and can flee. Then the snow leopard does not get anything to eat and he, or in this case she, gets weak and can't move as much around as a snow leopard without collar could.

So the scientist gets wrong information and lets the snow leopard starve..

it's mot for helping them its just bullshit that serves for nothing than a prize for wrong information for the scientist....

[Imrankniazi]

No sense having a collar that big and of such a contrasting colour. Clearly, it is not helping the animal's agility and is a huge hindrance to its biggest weapon - camouflage!

[Khamomil]

I hate these scientists. They claim to want to good to the animal but by catching it in a snare, restraining it, injecting it with anaesthetic and tagging it, they cause an incredible amount of fear and stress. Instead of showing respect for the creature they only express their power drive.

Do they think that these animals need humans attention to survive? Quite the opposite. The best way to preserve them is to leave them alone.

Telemetry oh sure big guy. Go fall off a cliff.

[schizokitty177]

that snow leopard isn't sharing anything, it didn't voluntarily put that collar on itself or let someone put it on, it was tranquilized, and if you really want to better preserve the species start find the poachers and arresting them and find the fur manufactures and shut them down as much as possible

[RoxxieT]

Scientists need to use the collars to see how much the cat is moving. Without this knowledge no one would know how big a reserve would need to be, or how much land the cat needs. They're doing this research to help the leopard.

That said, the collar is pretty big and smaller ones should have been used instead to have less of an effect.

[Khamomil]

@RoxxieT

How do you make a reserve in this area? Do you use fencing? I find the rationale unconvincing.

[RoxxieT]

@Khamomil No, you would not use fences. that would restrict animal movement and be potentially detrimental to the animal. Rather the area would be protected from development and human activity...the rationale might be unconvincing but this is the process that's been established for conservation, and without it they are going to go extinct.

[Khamomil]

@RoxxieT

The area is very sparsely populated and has been so for thousands of years. No need to forbid development, the mountains are forbidding enough. The animal is part of life and culture among these people and they're not going to change their behavior about the cat. The animal will survive if left alone. What drives animals to extinction is loss of habitat. These cats in particular are very private and if humans keep bothering it "for its own good" it might wipe it out.

[binashraf]

americans always do somethings stupid =/

[sgcrazy00]

Thanks for posting...

[afthefragile]

They could have atleast made the collar with some camo paint/fabric work on so that it could blend in more with the leopard's body!!

[IqsMontegro]

man needs to leave nature untouched

[PukkPukk]

I agree, this scientist is doing all his work from behind a computer. He needs to get off his ass and follow the leopard for a year to gain that data, as this camera man and journalist are doing. Could they have used a chip, like the ones that they put in dogs and cats?? It seems this collar is archaic.

[bawkshish]

@IqsMontegro : american indians, for years had managed the forests before europeans turned up and put everything in jeopardy. why do you think forest workers use controlled fire to burn off old grasses and so? nature definitely needs some retouching, though in this case, some intelligence would have helped.

[ALANSARALHAQ]

Look how something so unatural changes the "environment" based on the profound effect on the leopard.

Why the environment needs to be preserved and left at peace..& not commercialised. Yet I agree academic research is also important..but look how nature is at odds with the artificial man made collar -Reflect on it :)

[RoxxieT]

It's possible to use smaller, less distracting collars. Shame they didn't

[MrBritJan]

I think they should really need to adopt the micro-chip technology in the collars, so it put less strain on the animal.

[Dorifto007]

someone needs to put a collar on that POS scientist, so we can study his movements.

[Unilka]

how can they do this??? How can they do this to this pure beauty? That collar... I am so shocked... it is so dissappointing.........

[lolpower555]

very good vid

[TheTalibanHater]

GREAT GREAT VIDEO!! And I agree with look8u and Loveseekingmissile

[SyriacZebbo]

why is it so big? an iphone is 20 timessmaller

[solsalesul]

Collar does look awful, especially when we watched her first without it. But remember other documentaries, where the animal was collared from the beginning, did it shock you as it did here? The question is not how it looks, but

[solsalesul]

whether it affects her survival, her doing things. It may affect a bit, but as you see the filmers say it seems ok. Stupid scientist does not do it for the fun of it, but for the good of the snow leopards, the more we know about it the more decisively we can say STOP HERE to ourselves, because all of us are killing the nature around us, the more we are aware, the higher the chance we can change ourselves.

[maxwel2543]

dum bells the collar does nothing all it does is show if the animal they been folowing is dead or alive in a way it is a show of hope

[look8u]

This visble collar thing is aweful, it is denaturalisation of the animal appearance. Scientists MUST innovate other methods to tag/track animals without visible man made things on the animals. The sight of such visible devices simply reflect that man wants to enslave wildlife - its a shame!

[maxwel2543]

Hey dum BELL WITHOUT THOSE DAM COLLARS YOU WOULDENT BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO IN THE FIRST PLACE TO COMPLAIN

[look8u]

First they caught her on tape without collar, later video shows her collar. I am NOT against collar, I am against its VISIBILITY.

Is there an invention without indication of its need?

[baignabil]

who gave this stupid scientist the permission to do this in the first place put the collar on his neck and track him down

[Loveseekingmissile]

Take off the collar! Scientists can be so stupid. How about another device to see how the collar is affecting the snow leopard's life.

[stupidfukinshithead]

that collar is bullshit. i dont care what your reasoning is.

[shwwnn]

@stupidfukinshithead yeah! Exactly! "So that we can help snow leopards everywhere"??? HOW? I don't believe it. More like "so that I can get my paper published so I can continually receive funding so I can keep my job"!

[bluepeas510]

Contact: Panthera's NY office Tel: +1 (646) 786 0400, Founder and Chairman Thomas S. Kaplan (and their partners, info@panthera.org) to state your concerns about the handling & intrusive tracking of snow leopards by a scientist at his organization, Dr. Tom McCarthy"!!!