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Elusive animals: Amur leopards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00k8f35 (Dictation)
Elusive animals.
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I presume you are trying to work out what was said in the video, like a transcript. It's an interesting idea, I've not seen anyone try to do this before here. OK here goes...
So what exactly is an Amur leopard. Where do they live? Well, perhaps not where you might expect we might expected, but there are actually nine different types of leopards worldwide went wild. Amur leopards live in Russia, in a vast, frozen forest on the Korean-Russian border.
Next question. How many of them are there, actually in the wild, by the way, all aren't they breathtaking animals. So, how many? Well, no one will know we can be absolutely sure. But when these individuals were filmed in two thousand and four (2004), it was thought there might stored to be about thirty individuals left in the wild. Yep, that's it: thirty.
The Amul leopard is the rarest big cat on Earth. Kedrovya Pad is a national park, and scientist Linda Curley knows it intimately. She has been on the trail of the Amur, here in Russia for fourteen years.
-How many wild Amur leopards have you actually seen yourself?
-Just one.
-Wait a minute. One.
-Just one.
-In fourteen years.
-Yeah, for fourteen years.
-That's a fairly elusive animal. Right?
The (a...) They only know for sure that the big cats are here, and from the signs they leave behind, just things like pawprints.
-Linda, what's that?
-Hey, there we go, my Gosh, there we go.
-Look at that. I can see the individual pads here. And it's gonna be kind of refrozen since so it's quite solid in there, I can feel each one of the pads. That's really clear. Genuine Amur leopard footprint. And quite recent as well Linda, don't you reckon? is (well...)?
-Yeah, this is either, well, some time in the evening, last night or the night before, when the snow was still soft...(It's not now) (It's just soft...)
-As recent as that?
-So this is about, a little bit more than five and a half (propen and half). So that's the size of a female.
-So this is an adult pad female. Has walked right where are now...
- Footprints aren't the only proof that big cats roam this the forest.
- Check out this tree. See how it's leaning... And there's a little bit of (bear) dark, and there's some hair.
-(And the rest...) Oh there is?
- Let's see if we can get into...ah yeah.
-Can you?
-So this is a sort of message post, a signpost, really, and that there are cats in the area (cats in the air).
We can see that they have not only urinated, but they've also rubbed their cheeks...
-It's a little bit unnerving, but amazing at the same time.
-If they never see them, how do they know how many Amur leopards there are?
- They use these. Remote cameras triggered by the animals' movement.
-Wouldn't it will be fantastic if we got lucky? Spot on. Right. One more little test.
Unfortunately, the only image my camera detected was me. But, look at these, real pictures of real wild Amurs. Each individual can be identified by their unique pattern of spots, so none is counted twice.
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