Nepalese herders, tired of losing their livestock to snow leopards, have come up with an insurance plan to compensate them when a leopard kills a yak.
The herders pay about $1.50 a year to cover each yak, and are paid about $50 if the yak is killed by a snow leopard.
(On a side note, we're betting that this story is driving a significant amount of traffic to insuranceyak.com, which is a blog devoted not to yak insurance, but to yakking about insurance.)
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