Footage and Photographs Include Endangered Snow Leopard Scent-Spraying, Tibetan Wolf, Threatened Himalayan Serow and Musk Deer Thimphu–The first ever snow leopard prey survey in Bhutan’s newest ...

In less than a minute, the snow leopard had its prey in its jaws, and proceeded to carry it back to its den. Both species are very well camouflaged and extremely hard to spot. While large birds of ...

As anticipated, the samples confirmed the presence of primary prey species such as ... highlighting the snow leopard’s ...

Still, they prefer to hunt large herbivores such as ibexes and mountain sheep. And the snow leopard can capture prey three times as heavy as themselves. They will eat smaller animals, such as ...

The wild mountain sheep and goats that they prey on are declining in some parts of the snow leopard range too, because of competition for grazing land from livestock and illegal hunting. With ...

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 ... and its main prey, the blue sheep ...