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  2. Snow leopard - Wikipedia

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    Snow leopard skull in the collection of the Museum Wiesbaden. Felis uncia was the scientific name used by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1777 who described a snow leopard based on an earlier description by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, assuming that the cat occurred along the Barbary Coast, in Persia, East India and China. [4]

  3. Wildlife of Ladakh - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Panthera - Wikipedia

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    P. blytheae from northern Central Asia, originally described as the oldest known Panthera species, is suggested to be similar in skull features to the snow leopard, [8] but subsequent studies have since agreed that it is not a member of or a related species of the snow leopard lineage and that it belongs to a different genus Palaeopanthera.

  5. Snow leopard with 'huge' conservation legacy dies - AOL

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    A snow leopard who helped preserve her own endangered species has died of age-related ill health, a zoo has said. The big cat, known as Tara, was kept at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis (LWO) near ...

  6. How cute is too cute? Baby snow leopards charm Chicago - AOL

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    The Chicago-area zoo released photos and a video of its two newest additions: baby snow leopards.

  7. Big cat - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. The kids who grew up with chimps, leopards and a bear - AOL

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  9. Feliformia - Wikipedia

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    Feliformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "cat-like" carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, viverrids, and related taxa. ...