Amur leopard on the brink of extinction

Yahoo! News: Amur Siberian leopard close to extinction.

By the way, Ger SheNisgaer, a convert is getting a nefesh ho'eleikis, what happens to his "animal soul"? Does he/she get a new set of nefesh ho'beheimis?

Tony Montana comments:

According to Tanya (ch. 1), the spiritual difference between Jew and non-Jew pertains also to the animal soul. The Jewish animal soul possesses such innate traits as the qualities "baishonim, rachmonim, geimlei chasodim" that chaza"l enumerate as being distinctive characteristics of the Jewish people. The question is, when a ger receives a nefesh ho'eleikis, does he also receive such a new animal soul that will endow him with these characteristically Jewish traits?

The source for the above maamor chaza"l says that when Dovid HaMelech saw that the Giveinim did not possess these traits, he knew that they were not sincere converts and excluded them from klal Yisroel. This would seem to imply that had they been true converts they would have also had a concomitantly Jewish animal soul.

However, one could argue the other way as well. The animal soul "shmislabeshes b'dom" is the vital force of the body. Dare I say that inasmuch as this soul endows one with certain character traits as mentioned above, we may refer to this soul as the "personality of the body." While the ger receives a nefesh hasheinis which is entirely additional to anything he previously had, can we say that his bodily drives are replaced by new ones as well?

I have often wondered what is meant by the Rebbe's comment that R' Akivah perceived a need for a fifth dimension of yetzias Mitrzrayim corresponding to yechidoh sh'b'nefesh while R' Eliezer felt the need only for four levels because he - R' Akivah - was a ben geirim. I wonder if this is relevant to this discussion.