💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐆🏔️ Four snow #leopard cubs at #Melbourne #Zoo recently left their den for the first time to undergo their initial veterinary health check.

Watch as the veterinary team examines Maya, Kira, Lumi, and Sabu while they venture into their outside habitat.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/snow-leopard-cubs-venture-outside-and-have-their-first-vet-check?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=snow-leopard-cubs

#animals #babies #cats #cute #endangeredspecies #jobs #play #snow #snowleopards #womeninstem #work #tksst #video

🐆🏔️ Four snow #leopard cubs at #Melbourne #Zoo recently left their den for the first time to undergo their initial veterinary health check.

Watch as the veterinary team examines Maya, Kira, Lumi, and Sabu while they venture into their outside habitat.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/snow-leopard-cubs-venture-outside-and-have-their-first-vet-check?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=snow-leopard-cubs

#animals #babies #cats #cute #endangeredspecies #jobs #play #snow #snowleopards #womeninstem #work #tksst #video

Miska has given birth to four new cubs. Grainy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhUPD5nCXg

(edited for typo)

#zoos #melbourne #SnowLeopards #cats

Here's a quick bit of silliness from one of my favorite charities.

I got Dagina on the Which Snow Leopard Icon Are You? quiz. https://snowleopard.org/snow-leopard-personality-quiz/

#SnowLeopards #SnowLeopardTrust

A drone photo of a snow leopard undergoing adaptive training at a conservation centre in the Helan mountains in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The centre rescues snow leopards, trains them to survive in the wild and releases them with satellite tracking collars.

Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

#photography
#conservation
#SnowLeopards
#China

Kyrgyzstan Adopts Snow Leopard as National Symbol, Unveils Official Logo

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/kyrgyzstan-adopts-snow-leopard-as-national-symbol-unveils-official-logo/

Only 167 snow leopards left in Pakistan

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1388745/only-167-snow-leopards-left-in-pakistan/

7-Oct-2025
The world’s #snowLeopards are very similar genetically. That doesn’t bode well for their future

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101048

#science #conservation #ecology #genome #feline

Snow leopards in Mongolia's mountains hunt the largest ibex--as much as twice their own body weight--because the largest ibex are slower to escape on steep terrain.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/snow-leopard-hunt-ibex-tost-mountains-mongolia

#Nature #Ecology #SnowLeopards #Cats

They're adorable!

Rare images capture snow leopard cubs in their dens | New Scientist

"A pair of researchers have visited two snow leopard dens in Mongolia’s Tost mountains, where they studied and photographed five cubs, offering a rare opportunity to gather data on this threatened species."

#SnowLeopards #Caturday #Wildlife
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2488533-rare-images-capture-snow-leopard-cubs-in-their-dens/