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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.
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 ...
Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
The Sacramento Zoo’s male snow leopard, who fathered the first snow leopard cub born in the capital city in more than a decade and graced River Cats baseball jerseys, is leaving the region ...
The current king of Mismede. He is a tall muscular snow leopard demi-human who enjoys doing arena combats and other competitions. Sometimes, he goes out in disguise to clear his head from his duties, much to his ministers' annoyances. Tilier Frau Mismede (ティリエ・ブラウ・ミスミド, Tirie Burau Misumido)
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 ...
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.
The leopard-lion clade diverged 3.1–1.95 million years ago. [38] [39] Additionally, a 2016 study revealed that the mitochondrial genomes of the leopard, lion and snow leopard are more similar to each other than their nuclear genomes, indicating that their ancestors hybridized with the snow leopard at some point in their evolution. [42]