Watching Animals at the End of the World
The last time I got teary watching a TV show a mother snow leopard and her adolescent daughter were struggling to get by in the cruel world of the Himalayas.
In the footage from the BBC’s Planet Earth II, the pair are beset by two males — beautiful, rare, dangerously horny creatures that would, David Attenborough explained in his hushed tone, likely try to kill any cub that was not his own. The mother manages to keep her cub alive and, in an epilogue filmed a month later, we see the