Snow Leopard [Full Nature Documentary]

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Silent Roar Searching for the Snow Leopard [Full Nature Wildlife Documentary] For several reasons, my favorite piece of footage is the courtship and mating sequence. It was my fantasy objective for shoot five. Silent Roar Searching for the Snow Leopard [Full Nature Wildlife Documentary] [The film was shot over nine shoots.] I researched all I could about mating strategies of big cats, especially the so-called solitary ones. I needed this comparative approach, since wild snow leopard mating had never been recorded. Many Ladakhi villagers believe that snow leopard females go down to the rivers and mate with male otters, to produce regular snow leopard cubs! So it was a pretty safe bet that even they hadn’t observed mating. Silent Roar Searching for the Snow Leopard [Full Nature Wildlife Documentary] That morning I was slowly scanning the area as usual when another team member spotted two snow leopards together, very high up on the skyline of the cliff. I rushed to a filming position and threw the camera kit together. I had the cats covered, and already in those first few minutes I could see that they were courting. Silent Roar Searching for the Snow Leopard [Full Nature Wildlife Documentary] The next nine hours were glorious: will they, won’t they? I didn’t take my eye off the viewfinder once. Just before dusk this wonderful team of people made the first-ever recorded observation of a wild snow leopard mating. I’m still deeply moved whenever I watch the footage, both for its content and for its process. After working so hard together over three years and two films, we had just become a part of snow leopard history. Not only that, we’ve cleared up that tale of otters and snow leopards! Silent Roar Searching for the Snow Leopard [Full Nature Wildlife Documentary] At the time there was no explanation for his illness. I delayed my return to Ladakh, the film location, as much as possible. But as soon as Taiga had stabilized and was released from the hospital I returned to location. Leaving your six-day-old baby for the next two months tears a piece out of you that never quite grows back, made worse when that baby is ill. https://www.youtube.com/user/HDBestdocumentary After shoot two was over I spent a beautiful month with Taiga, now two and a half months old, on location in New Zealand for another film I was shooting. All seemed well. But 36 hours before I was due to return to Ladakh for shoot three, Taiga was diagnosed with an incredibly rare congenital disability called septo-optic dysplasia, a midline brain abnormality. Stunned and heartbroken, I delayed my return to Ladakh as long as I could, and then had to leave to film the seasonal events that simply wouldn’t wait. Best HD Documentary Wild life Shoot three was one of the most difficult I’ve ever done. I had a satellite telephone with me (for safety reasons, and for communication with my co-producer in England, Hugh Miles), so I was able to make brief weekly calls to my then-wife back in Australia. Each call was emotionally battering as I’d learn of yet another devastating aspect of Taiga’s condition. He was pronounced totally blind; his beautiful blue eyes had no optic nerve connecting them to his brain. My passion to film snow leopards suddenly seemed absurd: Here I was filming an animal to show 80 million strangers around the world, and I was powerless to show my own baby son anything. I had to draw on every technique of psychological discipline I knew of to get through it. But I had to make those weekly calls, no matter how heartbreaking. In a way, shoots four, five, and six were even harder as we became more informed about just how fragile Taiga was. Best documentary:Deadly Crocodiles of the Nile River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbJkEov_14 National Geographic - World's Deadliest Snakes HD CC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtP4md4o_Ps Nature Documentary : {The Private Life of Deer} HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYD5mml2Fzk Turtles and Tortoises Animal Documentary HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2GEt21jX3E Full Nature Wildlife Documentary} Black Mamba Snakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFF9kF5VK8 [Full Wildlife Documentary] |HD Wildlife Documentary| [Wild life Documentary] [HD Documentary Wild life] [Best HD Documentary Wild life] [documentary] [ history channel documentary] [national geographic documentary] [bbc documentary] [ documentaries] Full Wildlife Documentary,HD Wildlife Documentary,Wild life Documentary,HD Documentary Wild life,Best HD Documentary Wild life,documentary,history channel documentary,national geographic documentary,bbc documentary,documentaries,Full Wildlife Documentary,HD Wildlife Documentary,Wild life Documentary,HD Documentary Wild life,Best HD Documentary Wild life,documentary,history channel documentary,national geographic documentary