Скачать или смотреть See how LONG a Snow Leopard's tail is!

Almost as long as it's body, the Snow Leopard has a tail that is perhaps longer, in proportion terms, than any other cat!

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are one of the most enigmatic wild cats. They live and travel in solitude over vast distances of isolated and rugged mountain range in central Asia, and are supremely adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Adding to their elusive nature, snow leopards are the one big cat that cannot roar. Seldom observed in the wild, or at best a fleeting apparition, snow leopards have appropriately earned the title ‘Ghost of the mountains’.

The long-term outlook for snow leopards - a flagship species of the mountain ranges of Asia - isuncertain at best. Sadly, as few as 4,000 to 7,000 snow leopards may remain in the wild. Snow leopards are believed to have been extirpated from as much as 15% of their historic range, and though they are legally protected in the twelve countries in which they are found, they are listed as “Endangered” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

Snow leopard range encompasses 2 million square kilometers spread across twelve central Asian countries. The big cats are currently found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; with 60% of their habitat occurring in China alone.

Source: http://www.panthera.org/node/11

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