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ENDANGERED SNOW LEOPARD  SCIENTIFIC NAME: Panthera Uncia

HABITAT: The snow leopared lives in the high rugged mountains and alpine meadows. They like cliffy habitats wich have broken turain, rocky outcrops and ravines.You can find the Snow leopard in the regions of China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyroyz republic Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan.

REASONS FOR SNOW LEOPARDS ARE ENDANGERED: The reason the snow leopards are endangered is 1: due to villagers kill them because the snow leopards go into the villagers live stock and eat the live stock.The reason the Snow leopard goes into the villagers live stock is because the villagers are killing the Snow leopards food. The villagers are getting revenge on the Snow leopard for eating there live stock by poisoning the Snow leopard or shooting it. 2: The reason the Snow leopards are becoming extinct {dying} because of humans activities in the mountains. 3: Snow leopards are also endangered do to commpetition for live stock, people poaching them and using the Snow leopards for food. Humans are taking over the mountain areas which are causing the Snow leopards to become extinct. People are also selling their bones. 4: The scientists are documenting if the Snow leopards are reproducing,how many Snow leopards are still alive,when the Snow leopards meet up were do they go {spend there time together}. The world conservation union has identified the Snow leopards as endangered since 1972.

CHARACTARISTICS: shy,white to spotty grey fur with spots, long body hair, is a medium to large size animal, weights about 77-121 lbs; 1.8 - 2.3 metres from head to tail, short forelimbs and long hind limbs {agility}, large paws for walking, long thick fury tail helps with balancing, well developed chest and enlarged nasal cavity which helps them be adaptible to cooled air and high altitude, they don't roar and they live alone.

BEHAVIOUR AND REPRODUCTION: leap thirty feet, eat prey three times it's weight, stealthy, active at dawn and dusk, mate between January and mid March, cubs born late spring or early summer, has 2 to 3 cubs

PREY: eat blue sheep or bharal, wild goat, they kill prey twice monthly, eat mammot, pika, hares, small rodents and game birds, sheep, goat, horses, young yak they also eat plant materials

POPULATION: 3,500-6,000 live in wild and 600-700 live in zoo's around the world. Some papers state there are only 3,500 left in the wild.

THREATS: they live for 10 to 12 years, people poach them for there fur, bones and body parts.

PREVENT EXTINCTION: Convention on international trade of endangered of wild fawna and flora protect the Snow leopard, public awareness, donations to help the cause.