First Ever Footage of Snow Leopard Hunting in Wild (May, 2004)

This is a short documentary about my fortuitous encounter with the endangered snow leopard.

This is the first footage of its kind. Some would even call it the holy grail of nature footage for no person had ever caught a wild snow leopard in the middle of a successful hunt on film (especially prey as large as a dzo)...until now.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• snow
• leopard
• lion
• tiger
• panther
• cougar
• cheetah
• Ladakh
• India
• Kashmir
• Himalayas
• large
• cat
• national
• geographic
• predator
• dzo
• yak
• Tibet
• animal
• livestock
• kill
• bloody
• remains
• expedition

[180filmsnetwork]

Next time I will tackle my friend Jigmet and hold him down. What was I thinking? It's uplifting to see armchair self-righteousness still going strong.

[dilmao]

oh wow... that was at least twice the challenge of a hunt for a goat down the mountain side... pathetic video... the attraction of watching leopards is the amazing physique... this is disgusting!! fuckin loser...

[180filmsnetwork]

Thanks for your constructive insight. Next time I'll have the leopard chase a dzo down the mountainside. Poor directorial choice on my part.

[dilmao]

indeed...

It's as if someone knocks you out and someone else comes along and picks your pocket... AND someone's sick enough to tape it!!!!

By the way, why does the headline say Snow Leopard HUNTING a bull? Where's the hunting part of this video?

[180filmsnetwork]

whoosh!

[zwx66]

I thought the narrator was great! His non-practiced dialogue while seeing the "kill" was true to life. This type of video should definitely go further, be made known to snow leopard groups, etc.......

[kazakhseven]

Unbelievable! Although they known to attack yaks, normally they go for the calves. Well done

[manolin7]

unbelievable video. Only question - why did Jigmet go up? I have read he is a very good guide. That is very unguide like. Or was it in his early days.

[frootify]

@earthlen The Yak wouldn't have survived anyway (you saw Jigmet try to move it)

I think the Snow Leopard can attack herd is because the shepherding is not as active as we'd think. That's why most conservation interventions are to secure grazing in fenced areas, or under supervision - and THAT itself reduces the herd loss substantially.

[frootify]

@bukkworm No documented attack on humans. The Snow Leopard is found closer to human inhabited areas simply because livestock is easy prey!

[frootify]

You're extremely fortunate to see a Snow Leopard in its home Matt. Their home ranges can be 10 km+ and with their stealth and camouflage...I mean wow.

Also, it's an excellent piece of work. *Thank you* for sharing it! :)

[kabayegainsaf]

snow leopards r found in mountain areas of pakistan nepal china and india

[999m4em]

5:38 wow now this just shows you the leopard scared all the shit out of that yak.....

[bukkworm]

@180filmsnetwork will they harm me if I encounter them all alone on my next trip to Ladhakh???

[thedeafway]

amazing footage dude. literally amazing. fortuitous to say the least. A better zoom and a tripod would have been amazing but you did good really good. i wanted to trek to

Stok kangri some day. need to lose about 25kgs first. ha!

[jasonwilliamedwards]

What concerns me most about this video is that you felt it appropriate for your guide to go and flush out the other leopard. This not only breaks every rule of wildlife research and documentary making but endangers the cat by making it flee from a perceived threat, expending energy unnecessarily and by altering it's normal behavioural patterns. A little patience may have seen you rewarded with more footage.