Although: it is used for ‘normal movement’¹ and the tail reflects emotions through boy language, and provides signals to other cats, the tail is not an essential piece of anatomy for the domestic cat. You only have to ask people who keep bob-tailed cats to find out. The Japanese Bobtail and the American Bobtail …
The magnificent, gentle and elusive snow leopard has hauntingly pale eyes, exotic markings and a stunningly thick rope-like tail. This is probably the most beautiful of all the wild cat species other than the clouded leopard. The tail is very noticeable. Its circumference is greater than that of a man’s forearm. It is also …
This is a chart showing the prey profiles (my terminology) of snow leopards in three regions. You will note the high percentage of plant material. I speculate about this on this page. The amount of plant material consumed by the snow leopard is noticeably higher than any other cat, it appears. The source material …
The snow leopard range indicated on the map below is a little different from the others on this site as the range is: very fragmented in places and large parts of the range have very irregular boundaries For these reasons the range edging is soft and thick and the fragmented areas are indicated by …
by Michael (London, UK) Snow Leopards – photo by Turkinator Here is an example of clever cat conservation. It seems to me as if it is a piece of enlightened lateral thinking. The cat concerned is the snow leopard, a startlingly beautiful and elegant rock climber. And how have the conservation experts gone about …
Pictures of Snow leopards are all about what they look like so this page shows pictures together with a written description for completeness. The first picture might not necessarily be the best aesthetically but it is certainly one of the best to show some of the main features of the snow leopard. Two outstanding …
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