Panthera uncia, commonly known as the snow leopard, is a longhaired cat included in the Felidae family, or big cat family. Snow leopards were formerly classified as Leo uncia but were placed in the genus Panthera with the other big cat species due to their common ancestors. Snow leopards are closely related to tigers, or Panthera tigris. Both species separated from the big cat family around 3.9 million years ago, and genetic studies show that snow leopards branched from tigers around 3.2 million years ago, which shows their close tie to tigers (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014).
Snow leopards physiological traits include a soft, dense, insulating undercoat with a thick, pale grayish coat of hair about 2 inches long with dark spots similar to
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al, 2014) and are also found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan (Wikramanayake et. al, 2006). They are populated at a low density among large range areas. The natural diet of snow leopards consists primarily of wild blue sheep and Siberian ibex, but also includes pikas, hares, and game birds. An average of 1.5 kilograms of meat is required per snow leopard daily, which is equivalent to 3.3 pounds (Lyngdoh et. al, 2014). With much of the land being developed for livestock production, the natural source of food for snow leopards has depleted from their natural habitats. The decrease in prey resources has contributed to an estimated 20 percent decline in the overall snow leopard population in the past 20 years (Lyngdoh et. al, 2014). Furthermore, this has led to an increasing number of livestock and domestic animals as the snow leopard’s new prey source. Although human density of the land is low, much of the land used for livestock overlaps snow leopard territory, causing an issue between humans and snow leopards (Jackson, 2015). This issue has contributed to their continued list as an endangered
These were no ordinary snow leopards, though, they were a legend come to life. The snow leopards have the intelligence and intellectual of humans and were made in hopes of one day being able to communicate with humans. The snow leopards and their King, Tharaman-Thar, made an alliance with Thirrin and provided a small army of 1,000 leopards, seeing as they were fighting their own war. Even this small army was a big help though, because the giant leopards had razor sharp claws and teeth. The snow leopards traveled back with Thirrin to the Hypolitan people where all were preparing for the coming
In Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, Spigelman uses a combination of flashbacks to illustrate his father’s experiences in the holocaust in the form of a graphic novel. Spiegelman describes his father’s present day life and their interactions, to give the reader a view of a holocaust survivor’s life: before, during, and after the holocaust. Art and his father, Vladek, are the two protagonists of the comic and each chapter begins and ends with Art’s experience while writing the novel, while the bulk of each chapter is filled with Vladek’s flashbacks to his experiences during the holocaust. Each chapter plays a significant role in the overall plot, and the reader’s understanding of Vladek’s experience in the holocaust, as well as the dynamic
Mountain Lion The Mountain Lion is the largest of the wild cats in North America. A male lion generally weighs 130- 150 pounds and a female 65-90 pounds. They have tan and gray colored fur. They also have dark brown at the tip of their long tail, dark brown on the back of their ears, and on the sides of their noses. They prefer to live in areas of rock, uneven mountains, and forests, however they adapt to areas of rolling hills with little cover and the
The amur leopard or panthera pardus orientalis is a rare subspecies that lives in temperate forests of Far Eastern Russia. They are also found in the Jilin Province in Northeast China. An amur leopard’s life span is about 10 to 15 years in the wild and 20 years in captivity. As you can see the leopard lives longer in captivity. A male amur leopard usually weighs around 82 to 198 pounds and a female usually weighs 62 to 132 pounds. An amur leopard’s diet consist of roe deer, sika deers, small wild boars, hares, badgers, and raccoon dogs.
Big cats species include lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs and many more. Big cat species exist in wide-ranging habitats including the savannas, tropical rain forests, mangrove swamps and boreal forests. The big cat populations are declining as the result of human threats. For the last thousands years, human populations are increasing at an unprecedented rate. The increase in human populations has caused the big cats population to encounter an ongoing poaching, loss of habitat, and pollutions.
The organism I have is the snow leopard. As many of you know, the snow leopard is a mammal. The snow leopard is apart of the Felidae family. There are many different types of cells found in mammals. Four of the most commonly known cells are epithelial cells, fibroblasts, lymphocytes, and macrophages. Lymphocytes are found in the blood. Epithelial cells, fibroblasts, and macrophages are found in the tissue.
Does anyone know how to tame a vicious animal with smooth and silky butter? In “Swiss Family Robinson,” the Robinson family carefully and sometimes savagely caught and tamed some vicious animals. This essay will show how they tamed a mischievous donkey and an impatient ostrich.
The name jaguar come from the Native american word yaguar. Yaguar means "he who kills with one leap. The jaguar is the third-largest cat in the world. Only tiger and lions are bigger felines. A jaguars fur is usualy orange or tan with black spots. Because they are shaped like roses these spots are often called "rosettes. Jaguars can run quickly but they often hide and weight for their pray rather than chase them. Did you know that jaguars like the water and are good swimmers. Most jaguars live in swamps, grasslands, forests, and deserts. They are carnivores and eat only meet. They don't like to share their food. They dragged their prey beneath trees to eat it alone. Baby jaguars is called cubs?
What are the seven characteristics of a Tiger? Does the tiger have single- cell organisms or do they have multicellular organisms? How much sunlight do they need? What does a tiger do when the season change? How does a tiger grow from baby to an adult? How does a tiger reproduce and how well do they adapt to their environment?
As human development continues to expand further into the Santa Cruz Mountains, the mountain lion habit incessantly is decreasing creating numerous problems and concerns; such as corridor loss, depredation, and public safety. Over the past decade an increase in encounters has occurred, directly correlating to the increase in habitat fragmentation. Because mountain lions have the greatest geographical range of any land mammal, their home ranges require very large and contiguous territories. The destruction of their previous widespread habitat has created new complications that threaten not only the mountain lion, but the overall biodiversity of the ecological community. Mountain lions are both apex predators and opportunistic carnivores, making them a keystone species. As a keystone species, the mountain lion’s ecological role is extremely
Once there was a whole kingdom of felines. This kingdom of cats was great but there was a leopard who despised it. He always wanted to talk about how cats could go to other land masses and expand, no one in the kingdom believed him they said he was crazy
Living in the desolated environment of Africa, there stood a leopard named Leo. Leo is the smallest, yet fastest of them all. Without a doubt, he beats the lion, jaguar, and tiger. Leo is always looking for preys to hunt every day. He hunts and feeds off of small hoofstock, such as impala, wildebeest, deer, and gazelle. Leo and his kind live on dry parched trees in the grasslands of Africa. When Leo hunts, he often brings his prey up to the branches of the tree to eat them. Leopards are always assumed to catch their prey with ease; however, Leo differs from the rest of his kind.
When Belinda was twelve, her father died of a stroke while he danced with her, after battling through compulsive behaviors, depression, and anxiety she was ultimately hospitalized. Velia, age eleven, never met her dad. Confused and at times rejected by her mother, she became involved with drugs and binge eating episodes. After terminating treatment she had a baby out of wedlock like her mother. Maria when she was thirteen was having sexual relations with her peers and was called various names such as “whore” at school. She deeply longed to meet her biological father from an early age (Kestenbaum & Stone, 1976). These are a few of the devastating stories of real women who had to undergo various psychological treatments to deal with their behavioral
The captivating painting by Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night is a work of art completed by Van Gogh in 1889. Van Gogh had wanted to paint something that represented the night sky for some time, but many people are interested to find out that Van Gogh actually painted The Starry Night during his time at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, an asylum and clinic for the mentally ill. There is much debate over the legacy of Van Gogh, and his “Turbulent Mindstate” however we can examine much of the speculation about the artist by doing research on the painting The Starry Night. (Paulson)
A leopard will kill its prey with one swift bite to the neck, breaking it. The largest of the leopards is about five feet in length, with its tail adding another 3 feet and over 200 pounds. It can range from a dark golden to a light cream color. There are also melanistic coats, which are all black, sometimes called Black Panthers. All leopards have the dark rosette pattern, spots on their coats, although they are not visible on the black coats. The males are generally 20 to 40 percent larger than the females.On average, each liter will produce two cubs, each weighing only one and a half to two pounds. The cubs remain with their mother for 18 to 24 months. There are over 20 subspecies in the leopard group and each one is slightly different than the others. They are excellent climbers and can drag prey that is three times their weight up into a tree to keep it safe from scavengers and other hunters. They are often found hunting nocturnally, and hiding in the brush during the hot afternoons. They can hunt in places with nearly no light because of their circular pupil which is capable of vast dilation. They also have a superb sense of smell and the ability to detect movement.People usually think of leopards in the savannas of Africa but in the Russian Far East, a rare subspecies has adapted to life in th e temperate forests that make up the northern-most part of the species’ range. Similar to other leopards,