So, they can still hiss at you. Snow leopards are among the world’s deadliest hunters and will eat whatever is available. Still, they prefer to hunt large herbivores such as ibexes and mountain ...
The snow leopard is one of the most elusive creatures out there. Traditionally known as apex predators, these majestic felids ...
The greatest threats to the survival of the snow leopard are habitat loss and fragmentation, prey depletion and illicit trafficking, illegal hunting, including poaching, and climate change.
This was a stark contrast with what I had always previously understood – that locals did not get on with snow leopards, as they hunt their livestock which graze freely on the rangelands.
Has the chilling threat of extinction worn off at last for the long-endangered snow leopard? Not exactly - but the iconic big cats' conservation status has been improved from "endangered" to ...
Donglin Zhou (China) witnesses the drama of a snow leopard hunting a Pallas’s cat. When the snow leopard sprang into action, Donglin assumed it was in pursuit of a marmot, not seeing, at first, the ...
A snow leopard was shot dead after a zookeeper left the enclosure door open and it escaped. Dudley Zoo said eight-year-old Margaash was killed after getting free on 23 October when the zoo had ...