Scientific Name: Panthera uncia. Type: Mammals. Diet: Carnivore. Size: Four to five feet with a tail up to 36 inches. Weight: 60 to pounds. Least Concern Extinct. Current Population Trend: Decreasing. This photo was submitted to Your Shot, our photo community on Instagram.
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Animals This frog mysteriously re-evolved a full set of teeth. Animals Wild Cities Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. Snow leopards help to keep the ecosystem in balance by preying on Himalayan marmot populations. Marmots are important to the alpine pastureland because their burrowing, much like plowing, aerates the soil and helps the grasses grow.
The grasses are important to the wild sheep and goats which are also snow leopard prey and also to the livestock that mountain people depend upon for their existence. However, marmots also eat vegetation, and they have periodic population explosions. We need your help to give rangers the strength and safety they need, and to tackle poaching and demand for products like ivory.
Join us and you can help stop the illegal wildlife trade and tackle other threats facing our natural world. Their fur keeps them well insulated in cold weather - it can be 5cm long on their back and sides and almost 12cm long on their belly. The snow leopard's main prey in Nepal - blue sheep - will provide one snow leopard with food for a week. Snow leopards live at high altitudes, usually at elevations of 3,,m. They prefer steep, broken terrain like cliffs, rocky outcrops and ravines.
The snow leopard is an ambush predator and will attack its prey from above when possible. It is an agile animal that can jump as far as 14 metres which helps it catch prey and traverse through the mountains. It is common that the snow leopard will remain close to its kill and return over a period of 3 to 4 days to feed. Snow Leopards are crepuscular active at dawn and dusk in their hunting activities. Commonly, the cat is a solitary hunter, however, it may share the task with its mate during breeding season.
The gestation period for the female snow leopard is around 98 days. Due to harsh weather conditions in the alpine regions, cubs are usually born in springtime with mating taking place in late winter.
This ensures that a food source is abundant and less effort is needed to secure a kill. Females give birth in rocky dens lined with their fur. The litter size is usually between 1 — 4 cubs. The cubs weigh between — grams at birth and have a daily average weight gain of approximately 48 grams per day.
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