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Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Last September, zoologist and conservationist Bejan Lortkipanidze received a video file from a collaborator, Zurab Gurielidze, the head of Georgia’s Tbilisi Zoo. Gurielidze offered no details, but told his friend to just watch. For several moments, Lortkipanidze saw nothing…