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Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
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Snow Leopard with horse kill:
 *This image is copyright of its original author Source: Living with Large Carnivores: Mitigate Large Carnivore-Human Conflicts in Kargil, Ladakh by Aishwarya Maheshwari Does anybody how big the horse is? Can anyone at least estimate the size?  
An other very impressive video: snow leopard chasing blue sheep and falling off cliff. But here, the picture is very good.
The snow leopard is clearly a superhuman creature ! 
Snow leopard family spotted in SW China nature reserve
 *This image is copyright of its original author Infrared photo taken in December 2018 shows four snow leopards in Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Four snow leopards were spotted by an infrared camera in a nature reserve that is a major habitat for giant pandas, the administration of the reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Thursday. The camera captured the snow leopard family, including three cubs and their mother, at an altitude of about 3,800 meters in Wolong National Nature Reserve in December 2018. This is the second time the reserve has spotted a leopard family after images of another leopard family were shot in August 2017. The videos show that the mother was on her way to a natural shelter in the snowfield, where boulders were piled up, and stopped to sniff the rocks. Her three cubs followed. Three days later, in the evening, the family returned to the shelter, where the mother marked the place by digging holes with hind legs. The cubs are nearly one year old, which is a good time to learn survival skills, said Li Sheng, a researcher with the School of Life Sciences at Peking University. Snow leopards are solitary animals that leave their mothers to live independently around the age of one and a half to two years. Snow leopards often give birth to two to four cubs at a time. It is common for one mother to raise two cubs and the family with three cubs is quite rare. The straight-line distance between the places where the two snow leopard families were spotted is only about 13 km and thus it is possible that the two families share a similar range of activities, said Duan Zhaogang, Party secretary of the reserve administration. The findings also suggest that snow leopards in Wolong have abundant food sources and good living conditions, Duan said. Snow leopards are a Class A protected animal in China and are classified as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They live in the Himalayas in central and south Asia at an altitude of 2,500 to 4,500 meters. http://www.china.org.cn/china/2019-07/19/content_75008862.htm 
Measurements and weights
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Environment Minister Reveals Plans to Double Snow Leopard Population
India gets protocol to assess exact Snow Leopard population, currently estimated between 400-700. TWC India  *This image is copyright of its original author Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, on Wednesday, October 23, revealed that a protocol has been decided among the member countries of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP), road-mapping the enumeration of snow leopards. He added that once the enumeration is completed, the plan is to double the population of snow leopards in the world. Addressing the inaugural session of the fourth steering committee meeting of the GSLEP programme on the occasion of International Snow Leopard Day, Javadekar said that at present, the maximum population of snow leopards inhabits Mongolia and China. Further, he confidently added that once the protocol has been finalised, it will help all the countries in the leopard count, following which the world can collectively strive to double the population of snow leopards in the coming decade. Giving the example of India's success in counting tigers, he said the exercise that was considered difficult until 20 years ago has now been carried out successfully, with the population of tigers in the country touching 2,967—77 per cent of the world tiger population.  *This image is copyright of its original author India will have a separate programme on snow leopards to include green pathways in the Himalayan region, where they are typically found, to help assist livelihood creation and create an ecosystem, the Minister said. Javadekar added that discussion, deliberations and cooperation will help the countries move ahead on nature conservation, and that the focus needs to be on issues concerning capacity building in nature and the conservation of snow leopards. He expressed his confidence in winning the battle against climate change by conserving nature and the animal kingdom, reinforcing the commitment to give a better planet to the next generations. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wild...tion-67398 http://www.theweekendleader.com/Headline...mbers.html
The complicated relationship between the ounce and other Pantherine cats
On one hand, based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence sampled across the living Felidæ, the snow leopard forms a sister group with the tiger. The time of the genetic divergence of this group is estimated at 4.62 to 1.82 million years. The snow leopard and the tiger probably diverged between 3.7 and 2.7 million years ago. The genus Panthera originates most likely in northern Central Asia. Panthera blytheæ, excavated in western Tibet's Ngari Prefecture, is the oldest known species in Panthera, and exhibits skull characteristics similar to the snow leopard: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5757/73, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266755142, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...via%3Dihub, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/1....2013.2686 2 cladograms (by Sainsf) proposed for the genus Panthera. The upper cladogram is based on a 2006 phylogenetic study by Warren E. Johnson (of the National Cancer Institute) and colleagues, and a 2009 study by Lars Werdelin and colleagues. The lower cladogram is based on a 2010 study by Brian W. Davis (of the Texas A&M University) and colleagues and a 2011 study by Ji H. Mazák (of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum) and colleagues.  *This image is copyright of its original author One the other hand, a 2016 study revealed that the mitochondrial genomes of snow leopards, leopards and lions are more similar to each other than their nuclear genomes, indicating that the ancestors of snow leopards hybridised with those of leopards and lions at some point in their evolution: https://genome.cshlp.org/content/26/1/1
Photo credits: Snow Leopard Trust
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