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Dahal of Druk Investments and Holdings admits Bhutan will need to build reservoir dams to maximize its hydropower potential, alarming environmentalists already worried about how the GMC will affect Bhutan’s endangered monkeys, tigers, rhinoceros, blue sheep, and snow leopards.—By Charlie Campbell/gelephu, Bhutan, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025 There are others too: gorilla, aardvark, Himalayan blue sheep, the Giant Japanese Salamander and the Asian small-clawed otter, to name a few.—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024 Their work revealed that Denisovans could hunt, butcher and process a range of different large and small animals, including woolly rhinos, blue sheep, wild yaks, marmots and birds.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 July 2024 While snow leopards may prey on these substitutes, the livestock encroach on the range of their native prey species like blue sheep and ibex, pushing them out of some areas.—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023 Some clips from the show have already begun making the rounds on the internet, like a startling showdown between a jaguar and a crocodile (seen above) or a heart-skipping sequence in which a snow leopard takes a 200-foot tumble off a frozen cliff while pursuing a Himalayan blue sheep.—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019 Their prefered targets are the blue sheep (bharal) of Tibet and the Himalaya and the mountain ibex, which is found over most of the rest of their range.—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023 Other than snow leopards, the park is home to the Tibetan wolf, Eurasian brown bear ,and blue sheep.—Andrea Pinto, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2022 The blue sheep huddle nervously, suggesting the presence of an apex predator.—Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
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