Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Ghost of the Mountains is a 2017 American nature documentary film about snow leopards on the Tibetan Plateau.Directed and written by Ben Wallis [1] and narrated by Antoine Fuqua, Ghost of the Mountains was released theatrically by Disneynature on June 30, 2017, the eleventh nature documentary released under that label.
About 200 snow leopards, an endangered species, are believed to live in Ladakh. The snow leopard (shan) once ranged throughout the Himalayas, Tibet, and as far as the Sayan Mountains on the Mongolian-Russian border, at elevations of 1800 m to 5400 m. They are extremely shy and hard to spot, and as such, not well-studied, though this has changed ...
The Chicago-area zoo released photos and a video of its two newest additions: baby snow leopards.
The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya .
“Snow Leopard,” the last film by Tibetan director Pema Tseden prior to his death in May, was awarded the Grand Prix at the closing ceremony of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on ...
His quest to photograph snow leopards began in 2011 and involved six trips to Tibet before he first encountered the animal in 2016. [3] It resulted in two photo-books about Tibet and snow leopards, Tibet: promesse de l'invisible and Tibet: Minéral animal , both published in 2018 and the latter with texts by the writer Sylvain Tesson who joined ...
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 ...