Sometimes
the same snow leopard is seen on multiple cameras, giving us a unique look into their personality and behavior.
Not exact matches
After conducting genetic analyses, they discovered that the hemoglobin genes of
snow leopards look and work pretty much the
same as those in other cats, they report today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Last year in a US Zoo I saw a young male
snow leopard doing the
same thing with his tail in his mouth.
A
snow leopard will not defend its food but will give it up to wolves in the
same way a cat will usually give up to a dog.
Researchers say the relationship between
snow leopards and wolves is the
same as cats and dogs.
We tested if the parameters for these young
snow leopards remained the
same after 2 years, became similar to other known adults, or were entirely different from young and adult
snow leopards.
Here we show 3 out of the 30 different photos of a male
snow leopard taken on the
same encounter during the 2
The degree to which each threat is harming
snow leopard populations varies in different countries but the endangered species faces the
same problems and challenges everywhere.
Gaddi Dogs were bred for hunting purposes but multi-talented Gaddi Dog is widely used by local shepherds, mostly Gaddis (from the tribe of the
same name) and these dogs are reputed to be strong enough to repulse attacks by
snow leopards and are very intelligent to herd stray sheep and goats back to their pens.
A Dot Earth reader, Jamie from Seattle, made an interesting comment the other day when we ran the new
snow leopard photograph from Afghanistan (lots of readers noted the clever timing of the Wildlife Conservation Society release, which came just as Apple was unveiling its new operating system with the
same name):