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snow leopard
Subfamily: Feline
Distribution: Asia
Diet: Carnivorous
English name: Snow leopard, Ounce
Class: Mammalidae
Eyes: Carnivora
A beautiful and endangered cat, the snow leopard is an environmental ambassador for the establishment of national parks or reserves that cross borders and an indicator of healthy mountain ecosystems. Known as the most beautiful cat in the world, the snow leopard is endemic to the Central Asian plateau, a continent-class protected animal, and as precious as the giant panda.
Snow leopards are named for living near the snow line all year round, also known as grass leopards and mugwort leopards. Its head is small and round, the tail is thick and long, the tail hair is long and soft, and the body is surrounded by fine soft and thick white hair, and there are many irregular black rings distributed on it, which resembles a tiger in shape, and its tail is even longer than its body. Generally, snow leopards are 1.1 meters ~ 1.3 meters long, 80 cm ~ 90 cm in tail length, and weigh 30 kg ~ 60 kg. Unlike the plain leopard, the snow leopard has a more developed forefoot and is a cliff animal, and its forelimbs are mainly used for climbing.
Snow leopards generally inhabit open, rocky areas at high altitudes. Snow leopard footprints have been found on the ridge of the top of the Qilian Mountains at an altitude of 4100 meters ~ 4500 meters, and on the snow at an altitude of 5400 meters on the north slope of Mount Everest. In addition, snow leopards often roam in permanent ice and snow, alpine bare rocks and cold desert zones. Snow leopards are brave and good at jumping on rocks. They curl up and hide between the rocks, and when their prey passes, they suddenly jump up to attack.
When food cannot be found in winter, they run to the lower mountains to steal human livestock and poultry. Dusk and dawn are the most frequent times when snow leopards live, and they occasionally come out during the day. The snow leopard's activity route is relatively fixed, and it can be seen from the footprints that it likes to walk ridges and valleys, does not like to shuttle through shrubland, empty hillsides and soft snow layers, and often walks along the trails it has stepped on.
In the cold and barren mountainous areas, the snow leopard's diet is mainly highland animals such as ibex, rock sheep and coiled sheep, and sometimes it also hunts some small mammals such as rabbits, marmots, rodents, and birds such as snowgrouse, horse chicken and red pheasant in the mountains. Snow leopards often prey on rock sheep by means of sudden attacks, which bite the throat of the rock sheep and kill them.
Snow leopard in body shape, bones, teeth and bone form, structure are similar to leopard, snow leopard is a rock-dwelling animal in the plateau area, snow leopard like a leopard and slightly smaller, the whole body is gray-white, covered with black spots and black rings, palm pads and toes have thick and long coarse hair.
(Truth be told, the author tells you a secret, I once ran against the snow leopard, and won the snow leopard like a tortoise and rabbit race [shy])