BlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 7,1984 pjj jft« / / ft* ■ ’ itik- * ' Wildlife biologist Rodney Jackson of the California Institute of Environmental Studies cradles one of the three rate snow leopards he has trapped in the wilds of western Nepal. The big cats, temporarily sedated, were fitter with small radio transmitters so their movements could be monitored after their release. ■ew BLACK REP YfeUOW BLUE BROWN CMBR.MS ARE B/6 CAVES MARE&Y GROUND WATER. THE WATER P/SSOL YES TNE ROCK DEEP UNDERGROUND. MOST CAVERNS ARE/NL/ME STONE. SOME OF TNBSE CAVERNS ARE FA!RVLANDS. AFTER TNE GROUND WATER NAS MADE A CAVERN AMD DRAINED OUT, BBAUTfFUL icicles and Curtains of STONE /N STRANGE AND BEAUT/FUL PATTERNS ARE FORMED. ORAM6E GREEK) LT BROWN LT. BLUE LT. GREEN Biologist Tracks Snow Leopard WASHINGTON - The snow leopard the rarest and least known of the world’s great cats is being studied systematically in the wild for the first time. And wild it is. Rodney Jackson, a British wildlife biologist with the California Institute of En vironmental Studies, tracks the v—• * *1 _ #■ 4* % It must have been the holiday season that inspired everybody's guess as to what the elephant seals were saying, as we got many, many letters saying the seals were wishing each other Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. There were some other answers, however. Janice Weaver, Lebanon R 2, thought the seals were saying, "Come and join us. We're having lots of fun.” Wendy Bender, Lan caster, thought the seals were telling each other a joke, and one of our young-at-heart readers from Washington Boro thought the seals were singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning." f /4 A A (M? I V. / r} J J animals in the Himalayas of western Nepal, a snow-covered region dominated by precipitous peaks and jagged ridges. Glimpses of tree-roaming snow leopards have been rate. A luxurious smoke-gray coat sprinkled with black spots permits it to fade into rocky backgrounds V ' What Did You Say? 6 and mountain mists. Sought for Pelt But the handsome fur also im perils the leopard’s future. Although trade in snow leopard pelts is illegal in much of the world, a coat fashioned by a skilled furrier still can bring up to $60,000 on the black market. Jackson, whose work is sup ported by the National Geographic Society, hopes that, by ac cumulating information on the (Turn to Page B 14) 3 9 9 /-zi'az
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