Snow Leopard 1 of 10 Big Cat Week, which kicked off Sunday, is part of National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative, an effort to stop poaching, protect habitats and save several species of big cats. Story Highlights Researchers have found that snow leopards' protected ranges are too small. Just one snow leopard can roam an area three times the size of Manhattan and larger than the island of Aruba. As populations continue to expand, maintaining the habitats of large creatures becomes increasingly difficult. The stealthy snow leopard isn’t easy to track down, but a recent study has found that the large carnivores are running out of room to survive. According to the study, almost 40 percent of all protected areas across the species’ range is too small to even support a pair of breeding snow leopards. Less than 15 percent and likely as little as 3 to 4 percent of all the animal’s protected areas ar...
Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…
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