Category: Uncia
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Snow leopard cubs in Melbourne
Two cubs born in Melbourne Zoo on December 7th, 2008, started to come out and offer themselves to the eyes of the public. This is a major event for the zoo. Most cat babies or cubs are plain cute. But these two have the advantage of also being very elegant in their black-and-white version of…
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World map of snow leopards in zoos
This Google map was created by the Snow Leopard Trust to locate and identify all the zoos in the world that host snow leopards.
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Big Cat Art
Christina Langman is a painter that does a lot of things around big cats and could well be described as a feline artist. You would think that this leads me to invite you to visit her gallery. Yes, I do. But not only that. You should check her blog: Big Cat Art Blog. She describes…
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Snow leopards on Flickr
This superb animal has a great hpto group on Flickr. Here, there are beautiful images coming from either animals kept in world’s zoos, or photos taken by the Snow Leopard Trust which is currently working to protect the snow leopards (Uncia uncia) in the wild (in Central Asia, Mongolia). Snow Leopard Trust’s photostream
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Fossil big cats
The big cats that we know today are but an image of the species appeared then disappeared during the last 60 million years. Of course, I think of the famous saber-toothed tiger of our youngest years, but it is not alone. “The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives” of Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Anton,…
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Snow leopard scat is key
As a matetr of fact, the faeces from this big cat (the snow leopard) just acquired a higher status. A scietifical study just showed that a genetic analysis of the dejections of this animal allow a very precise identification (sometimes down to the individual identification) and give an excellent capacity to evaluate the bio-diversity and…