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Snow leopard on the reverse of the old 10,000-Kazakhstani tenge banknote Emblem of Tatarstan, depicting the Aq Bars, a mythical winged Snow leopard. The snow leopard is widely used in heraldry and as an emblem in Central Asia. The Aq Bars ('White Leopard') is a political symbol of the Tatars, Kazakhs, and Bulgars.
Panthera uncia pyrenaica, or Panthera pyrenaica, is an extinct pantherine felid that lived during the Middle Pleistocene in southern France.This taxon was initially suggested to be a European paleosubspecies of the modern snow leopard, but subsequently it has been assigned as a separate species within the genus Panthera.
Created in 2003 by Joël Barrière, a.k.a. Titanium, the program was originally meant to address its creator's personal needs. Developed using Xcode, Apple's software development environment (Cocoa + AppleScript Studio + Objective-C), OnyX is regularly updated by its author taking into consideration users' suggestions and requests.
Only the snow leopard cannot roar, as it has shorter vocal folds of 9 mm (0.35 in) that provide a lower resistance to airflow; it was therefore proposed to be retained in the genus Uncia. [5] Panthera species can prusten , which is a short, soft, snorting sound; it is used during contact between friendly individuals.
A Panthera hybrid is a crossbreed between individuals of any of the five species of the genus Panthera: the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard.Most hybrids would not be perpetuated in the wild as the territories of the parental species do not overlap and the males are usually infertile.
A leopard was recorded by a camera-trap in Bamyan Province in 2011. The long-lasting conflict in the country badly affected both predator and prey species, so that the national population is considered to be small and severely threatened. [7] [8] [9] Between 2004 and 2007, a total of 85 leopard skins were seen being offered in markets of Kabul ...
The snow leopard is a type of large cat. Snow Leopard, snow leopard or The Snow Leopard may also refer to: Ang Rita Sherpa, a Nepali mountaineer nicknamed "Snow Leopard" who summited Mount Everest 10 times; Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, known as the Snow Leopard, a Ghanaian skier; Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the seventh major release of Apple's OS X ...
The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya .