Snow Leopard Who Is Safe Unlike His Wild Relatives is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on August 18th, 2016.
Snow Leopard Who Is Safe Unlike His Wild Relatives
Snow Leopard in Taronga Zoo in February 2012. ... more
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Snow Leopard Who Is Safe Unlike His Wild Relatives
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Miroslava Jurcik
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Snow Leopard in Taronga Zoo in February 2012.
Unfortunately Taronga Zoo no longer has any snow leopards. I think this is Khumbu. He mated with Samara and they had 2 cubs, Sabu and Kamala who went to Port Macquarie. The cubs had stem cell operation bec they both developed a rare condition in cats called osteochondrosis when they were about six months old.
But the Zoo continues to support them in the wild.
Humans are responsible for the Snow Leopard’s decline: Poachers hunt them for their spotted pelts, their body parts are used for traditional medicine and the leopards come into conflict with local farmers. The human-leopard interaction is driven by an increase in human settlement in the remote areas of Central Asia that were once uninhabited or only sparsely populated.
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