When Animals Attack

A Woman Tried to Take a Selfie With a Snow Leopard. She Almost Lost Her Face!

The Instagram likes are not worth getting mauled by a snow leopard. Yet, this little bit of common knowledge is not as common as you think, as a woman vacationing in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region got mauled by a snow leopard after trying to snap a selfie with it. On January 23 at the Keketuohai Scenic Area in Altay prefecture, a popular ski spot, a woman saw the snow leopard in an open snowfield and approached within about 10 feet to take pictures. Speedy beast lunged, knocking her to the ground and biting her face. Independent reports that a video widely circulated on Chinese social media shows the leopard pacing in the snow before approaching a person lying motionless on the ground. In a jump cut that would be hysterical if it weren’t so messed up, later clips show bystanders carrying the injured woman away, her helmet and clothing visibly bloodstained as she shields her face.