Snow Leopard's are like gray regular leopards. They're found on mountains of Central
Asia.
In their habitat they like rocky place's.
the Snow Leopard is a (U Nial) is a moderately large
( U Nail) cat.
Snow Leopard's are smaller then regular cats
The snow leopard is a powerful hunter, able to kill prey three times its weight. The snow leopard's diet varies across its range, but the cat most commonly hunts wild sheep and goats.
An estimated 3,500 to 7,000 wild snow leopards roam the mountains of central Asia today.
The snow leopard mating season is between January and mid-March. Males and females are together for only a short time during the mating season, and males are not involved with cub rearing.
Female snow leopards are pregnant for 93 to 110 days, and cubs are born in June or July. Usually 2 or 3 cubs are born in a litter. Very rarely, snow leopards in captivity have given birth to up to 7 cubs at a time. In the wild, it might be hard for a mother cat to successfully raise more than 2 or 3 cubs because of the difficulty of feeding them.
The snow leopard is a powerful hunter, able to kill prey three times its weight. The snow leopard's diet varies across its range, but the cat most commonly hunts wild sheep and goats. The two most important large prey species are the blue sheep, or bharal (Pseudois nayaur), of the Himalayas and Tibet, and the Asiatic ibex (Capra ibex), a wild goat found throughout the major mountain ranges of central Asia.
Snow leopards eat slowly, usually taking 3 or 4 days to consume a sheep or goat. During that time, the cat remains near the kill to protect it from scavengers such as vultures and ravens, eating every few hours until the carcass is clean. Snow leopards kill a large animal twice monthly on average.
Snow leopards also eat smaller animals, especially in the summer months. Small prey include marmots, pikas, hares, other small rodents, and game birds like the Tibetan snowcock and chukor partridge.
In some areas, snow leopards also consume notable amounts of plant material, particularly during the mating season. The cats may do this to obtain specific nutrients that they need at that time of year.
The snow leopard is a powerful hunter, able to kill prey three times its weight. The snow leopard's diet varies across its range, but the cat most commonly hunts wild sheep and goats. The two most important large prey species are the blue sheep, or bharal (Pseudois nayaur), of the Himalayas and Tibet, and the Asiatic ibex (Capra ibex), a wild goat found throughout the major mountain ranges of central Asia.
Snow leopards eat slowly, usually taking 3 or 4 days to consume a sheep or goat. During that time, the cat remains near the kill to protect it from scavengers such as vultures and ravens, eating every few hours until the carcass is clean. Snow leopards kill a large animal twice monthly on average.
Snow leopards also eat smaller animals, especially in the summer months. Small prey include marmots, pikas, hares, other small rodents, and game birds like the Tibetan snowcock and chukor partridge.
In some areas, snow leopards also consume notable amounts of plant material, particularly during the mating season. The cats may do this to obtain specific nutrients that they need at that time of year.
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Engaging Students in Conservation: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard
This interdisciplinary 1-2 week unit was developed in collaboration with Facing the Future and support from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. With five dynamic lessons and culminating with a service learning project, it is available for free.
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This section is your one-stop shop for lesson plans that teach students about snow leopards, wildlife and habitat conservation, and biodiversity! These lesson plans all require the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Quick Links:
* All Ears for Adaptation: A lesson in ear design
* Prey and Predator: A lesson on Interaction
* Resources, Consumers and Predators: A lesson on Balance
* Put the Snow Leopard on the Map: a lesson on geography:
* Snow Leopard Mapping Lesson Plan
* Snow Leopards Mapping Student Worksheet
* Living among the mountains of the snow leopard: a lesson in ways of life:
* Life with Snow Leopards Lesson Plan
* Life with Snow Leopards Readings
* Life with Snow Leopards Photos
* Life with Snow Leopards Photos
* Life with Snow Leopards Student Worksheet
* Life with Snow Leopards Answer Sheet
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Learn about ways in which kids can help ensure the survival of the endangered snow leopard.
Snow leopards need help from kids too! Get involved and help us save these amazing cats. There are lots of ideas below (you’ll need to get help from your parents or teacher for some of them), or maybe you can think up some other ways to help.
Learn About Snow Leopards
Read in Cat Facts and elsewhere about snow leopards, where they live, why they are endangered, and what can be done to help them. Knowing about snow leopards and their fragile environment is the first step to helping these cats.
See a Snow Leopard Up Close!
The following map will show you where to find the nearest zoo that is home to a snow leopard. Click on the highlighted regions to see zoos with snow leopards. The zoos with yellow placemarks are members of our Natural Partnerships Program.
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Educate Others
* Send eCards to friends and relatives! These electronic postcards feature beautiful images of snow leopards and people from local Asian communities, as well as information about the endangered cats!
* Do a school project on snow leopards to teach your classmates about why this cat is endangered and how they can help it survive.
* Write a play or a song about snow leopards and perform it at a school assembly or your community theater.
* Make a poster about snow leopards and their ecosystem and ask if you can hang it in your school or community center.
* Tell your local zoo or write to your local or national government about snow leopards and why we should help them.
Protect Your Local Wildlife
If you live in a snow leopard country, help spread awareness about protecting the cat and the important prey species that snow leopards depend on to survive.
If you don't live near snow leopards, find out which animals need protecting in your area and what you can do to help them. When we all become more aware and take care of our local environment, wildlife all over the world benefits!
Organize a Fundraiser
* Work on your own or together with your classmates and friends to organize a fundraiser to benefit snow leopards.
* Hold a bake sale, a car wash, or a lemonade sale in your neighborhood or school. Donate the profits to the Snow Leopard Trust, or adopt a snow leopard.
* You can also think up your own great ideas for a fundraiser! One boy put up a big poster of a snow leopard at his school and raised money by having people buy "spots" to put up on the cat.
Adopt a Snow Leopard
No, you won’t have a snow leopard living in your house! But through the Snow Leopard Trust’s adoption program you can help save one of the last remaining snow leopards in the wild. Adopting a snow leopard is an interesting way to do something to help this beautiful species of cat, and is a good goal to work towards if you are having a fundraiser.
Sell Products From Snow Leopard Countries
Our Snow Leopard Enterprises program helps people who live near snow leopards in Mongolia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Pakistan live in harmony with this majestic cat. The communities help with conservation of the snow leopard, and we help them sell things they make with the wool from their sheep and goats. We have lots of items like hats, rugs, cat toys, and more!
You and your friends or your classmates can help us sell these items made by people in snow leopard areas. It works like this: we send you a sample of each item, and you take orders from your friends and family. You send us the money for the items, and we send you the products to distribute to your customers. Then we pass along the money to the families in snow leopard areas.
If you want to help us sell Snow Leopard Enterprises products, ask your parents or your teacher to help you organize the project, and have them contact us for more details.
Become a Member of the Snow Leopard Trust
Membership dues from people all over the world help the Snow Leopard Trust do research on snow leopards and their natural environment, work with communities in snow leopard areas to design conservation programs that will help people and cats at the same time, and do lots more activities to help save the snow leopard. Ask your parents if your family can join the Snow Leopard Trust, or if you can save up your money and join yourself.
Tell Us Your Story!
We want to know about how you have chosen to help snow leopards so that we can let other kids know more good ideas to help. Tell us about how you helped snow leopards. (And send us a picture of your activity if you can!) We might even put your story on our website or in our newsletter!
Thanks for all your help!
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