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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.
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.
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Clouded leopard. N. nebulosa (Griffith, 1821) Central Nepal to continental Southeast Asia and southern China: Size: head to body 68.6–108 cm (27.0–42.5 in) with 61–91 cm (24–36 in) long tail [28] Habitat: Forest and shrubland [29]
Snow leopard (national predator) Panthera uncia [46] Panama: Harpy eagle (national bird) Harpia harpyja [48] Peru: Andean cock-of-the-rock (national bird) Rupicola peruviana [49] Philippines: Philippine eagle (national bird) Pithecophaga jefferyi [50] Qatar: Arabian oryx (national animal) Oryx leucoryx [51] Saint Kitts and Nevis: Brown pelican ...
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.
Brewer's duck, hybrid of the mallard and gadwall. Genus Anas. In Australia, New Zealand and other areas where the Pacific black duck occurs, it is hybridised by the much more aggressive introduced mallard. This is a concern to wildlife authorities throughout the affected area, as it is seen as genetic pollution of the black duck gene pool.
Other cats in Ladakh are even rarer than the snow leopard: the Siberian lynx (ee), numbering only a few individuals, and the Pallas's cat, which looks somewhat like a house cat. The Tibetan wolf (shangku) is the greatest threat to the livestock of the Ladakhis and as such is the most persecuted. There are only about 300 wolves left in Ladakh.
The Leopard of the Caucasus, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1899. Felis tulliana was the scientific name proposed by Achille Valenciennes in 1856, who described a skin and skull from a leopard killed near Smyrna, in western Anatolia. [2] In the 19th and 20th centuries, several naturalists described leopard zoological specimens from the Middle East: