by Professor Ceiling Cat
I’m adding my authorship here as people automatically assume that every post whose title begins with “Spot the. . . ” is by Matthew Cobb. Over at Weather.com, of all places, there are a series of twelve photos, six showing cryptic snow leopards in the wild, each followed by a photo that circles the hidden cat. You’ll have to go over there to see if you’re right, but I’ll show three of the six photos.
Can you spot the Panthera uncia?
#1
#2
#3
h/t: Joyce
I think I spotted them all!
Yay I was right. I think the nightjars have improved our abilities. I should see if I’m better at finding Waldo now.
I found them fairly quickly – blowing up the photo helps as always. I decided they were displaying their common ancestry with crabs! 🙂
I think I see four in picture #2. Am I hallucinating them?
The other two are easier due to tails.
I see 3. So yes, you are hallucinating.
I see three too. So we’re as one on that. The two of us.
Even with the clues about tails, I still can’t find the one in the first photo, but the third photo is easy.
I see three as well. But I missed one on another pic so I guess I’m even.
I see 3 as well. The third is further up the ledge to the left of the other 2.
Much easier to spot than nightcarts. Errm, nightJARS.
I see four as well. I think I need some sleep …
Not you too! Quick. How many fingers am I holding up?
Seventeen!
b&
OK, after a night’s sleep and on zooming the picture well up I now reckon I can see three snow leopards and a rock leopard.
The 1st one looks like it has two snow leopards.
Yeah, that’s what I thought, as well.
Got’em all! Of course, this was easy because leopards really exist, unlike nightjars…
I am so smug, having seen one in Chitral.
Are there 3 leopards in picture #2?
Having looked at the “answers,” I’m convinced there are three leopards in photo two, and I have deep suspicions about a 4th rather feline boulder (or pebbly leopard).
The fourth, if it exists, is small
It needs to eat more nightjars.
I agree.
Having invoked Batman, and in the presence of Ceiling Cat, is it tim to come up with the origin story for “Leopard Spotting Man”.
Yes, the ambiguities are deliberate.
Those captions are all incorrect. Each reads, “A snow leopard is seen…” and yet, that’s the point: the snow leopard is not seen.
Indeed, they have learned the lesson very well!
b&
That isn’t true. Several of them are standing up.
Can’t be. They’re not exploding….
b&
Boooring! I mean, great pictures, but the “Spot the x”-level of those is nothing compared to the nightjar picture. The leopards were almost as easy to find as the advertisement.
I found them! Didn’t think I would. The first was hardest, for me.