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

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

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/
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
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
A Stanford-led study found that snow leopards have the lowest genetic diversity among all big cats, a dubious distinction previously held by cheetahs. Without a variety of genetic adaptations to fall back on, the snow leopard population is vulnerable to any drastic change, including the warming climate.
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
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/
7-May-2025
#India has one of the world’s highest densities of #snowLeopards
Camera trapping study reveals a large snow leopard population in India’s Ladakh territory
Most of India’s snow leopard population live in a remote region in the north of the country, where they co-exist alongside rural communities, according to a study publishing May 7, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Pankaj Raina at Union Territory of Ladakh's Department of Wildlife Protection, and colleagues.