<![CDATA[Jezebel: snow leopard]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: snow leopard]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/snowleopard http://jezebel.com/tag/snowleopard <![CDATA[ An image of a snow leopard in India from...]]> An image of a snow leopard in India from National Geographic was named Best Overall Photo in the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Steve Winter, who took the shot, says, "This is the hardest story I have ever done because of the altitude and the steepness of the mountains. At night it was 30 below zero [F°]." The other winning photographs include a dreamy underwater image of a southern right whale in New Zealand; a amazing closeup of a snake fighting with a frog in Belize and a surreal portrait of a black-crested macaque on Indonesia's Sulawesi island. (Click picture at left to see a few shots.) [National Geographic]

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[Images via Getty.]

Three month old snow leopard 'Emba' inspects his enclosure during his first outing on August 19, 2008 at the zoo in Rostock, northeastern Germany. 'Emba' is the first offspring of the snow leopards living at the Rostock zoo since 1989.  Getty

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