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Snow leopard on the reverse of the old 10,000-Kazakhstani tenge banknote Emblem of Tatarstan, depicting the Aq Bars, a mythical winged Snow leopard. The snow leopard is widely used in heraldry and as an emblem in Central Asia. The Aq Bars ('White Leopard') is a political symbol of the Tatars, Kazakhs, and Bulgars.
Leopard of Punanai: The leopard called "man-eater of Punanai" is the only officially accounted for man-eating leopard of Sri Lanka, where leopard attacks rarely happen. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] It killed at least 12 people on a jungle road near the hamlet of Punanai , not far from Batticaloa in the east of Sri Lanka.
A leopard was recorded by a camera-trap in Bamyan Province in 2011. The long-lasting conflict in the country badly affected both predator and prey species, so that the national population is considered to be small and severely threatened. [7] [8] [9] Between 2004 and 2007, a total of 85 leopard skins were seen being offered in markets of Kabul ...
Figures from the World Wildlife Fund?s recent report show that the populations of these big cats have dropped by about a fifth in the past 16 years.
In honor of World Environment Day, let's take a look at the multitudes of threats snow leopards face.
The study reveals that the snow leopard and the tiger are sister species, while the lion, leopard, and jaguar are more closely related to each other. The tiger and snow leopard diverged from the ancestral big cats approximately 3.9 Ma. The tiger then evolved into a unique species towards the end of the Pliocene epoch, approximately 3.2 Ma. The ...
Back in may, a three-year-old female snow leopard named Jita gave birth to her first litter of cubs in the Toronto Zoo. Her pregnancy, sired by the zoo’s nine year old male Snow Leopard Pemba ...
72 Dangerous Animals: Asia is a 2018 Australian nature documentary exploring Asia's most deadly animals, starring Bob Brisbane, Bryan Grieg Fry and Romulus Whitaker [1] Premise [ edit ]