snow leopard ecology

Snow leopards larking around

Snow leopard cubs – reproduction and development

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 but …

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Snow leopard and puma

Highest-living mammalian predators on land: snow leopard and puma

The puma a.k.a. mountain lion and cougar, together with the snow leopard are the two mammalian predators living at the highest elevations above sea level, on the planet. They are, therefore, listed in the Guinness World Records. They state that the snow leopard’s distribution covers 12 countries (their historic range covered 2.5 million square kilometers). …

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