[Vision2020] Caturday (August 14, 2010)

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Seattle Times at:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012609020_snowleopardlo12.html

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Designer cologne's scent spot on for snow leopards

Does a Calvin Klein cologne have a certain something snow leopards want?
Judging by the reaction Wednesday of three snow leopards at Seattle's
Woodland Park Zoo to a trap camera laced with the fragrance, the answer is
yes.

Does a Calvin Klein cologne have a certain something snow leopards want?
Judging by the reaction Wednesday of three snow leopards at Seattle's
Woodland Park Zoo to a trap camera laced with the fragrance, the answer is
yes.

And that means researchers from Seattle-based Snow Leopard Trust will
proceed with the cologne technique this fall in South Gobi, Mongolia,
using Calvin Klein Obsession for Men to draw more of the wild cats to
camera sites for a study.

The trust launched a long-term field study of the cats in 2008. Trap
cameras capture their movement and habitat use, and GPS collars relay
their locations.

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Helen, a 5-year-old snow leopard at Woodland Park Zoo, leaps out of the
way of her 1-year-old cub, Gobi, as he comes to check out the
cologne-scented camera box she was looking at in their exhibit Wednesday.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2010/08/11/2012600170.jpg

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Seeya at Farmers Market, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown