A Michael Broad Blog
This is a little story I’ve picked up in my travels which highlights the incredible stamina and persistence of the magnificent snow leopard. As you no doubt know they live at high elevations where there is often a lot of snow, sometimes deep. But deep snow does not seem to prevent them from travelling. …
The experts are unsure why but the snow leopard living on the high plains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky, scree slopes of the Himalayas eats a large amount of vegetation, far more it seems that is typical of the cat species. Fiona Sunquist writing in Wild Cats of the World by Mel …
Well, the snow leopard is a known beauty; enigmatic with haunting, hooded, green eyes fixed on a distant sighting of a blue sheep among the dark, sharp rocks and snow of its hostile yet majestic habitat. This is my favourite cat. So independent and hardy and yet almost friendly towards humans which makes it …
An innocuous question but an important one as the snow leopard needs large ‘snowshoe’ style paws to successfully navigate over, sometimes, deep snow. These cats really do live in some pretty hostile environments. But they are at home on these steep, snowy slopes and massive rock faces. They truly are amazing cats and so …
Here are two videos which show snow leopards falling hundreds of feet, rolling down rock faces, hammering into rocks on the way and at the end of it getting up and walking away. In one video the snow leopard has his jaws into a blue sheep, a large prey animal. The snow leopard never …
People ask, why are snow leopards endangered? The reason is because of us. This page adds some detail to that statement and refines it. In fact, this page is about the snow leopard’s status in the wild and its conservation. The sources for this page are: Wild Cats of the World (WoW) and the …
What Do Snow Leopards Eat? Here is a list with descriptions and some photographs. The snow leopard, like any cat is a carnivore and as expected hunts local prey. A major snow leopard prey item (species) and one that immediately comes to mind is the bharral or blue sheep1–Pseudois nayaur2. To get a feel …
This page is about snow leopard cubs and the wider topic of reproduction and development. A couple of scientists studying the snow leopard, Jackson and Ahlborn reported when observing a female and her to one-year-old cubs moving through a remote mountain area as follows: “[The female was] sauntering along with the cubs doing everything …
