The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a carnivorous hunter admired for its striking coat of white, yellow, or grey fur with black rosettes. Snow leopards live mainly in the alpine and subalpine ...

The return of wolves to Nepal’s Himalayan region is putting greater pressure on populations of naur, or blue sheep — and by extension on snow leopards, whose main prey is naur. New research shows that ...

In the icy wilderness areas of High Asia, snow leopards glide like shadows across the snows as the haunting howls of Himalayan wolves echo across the crags. In Nepal, high mountain dwellers have ...

Infrared camera traps set up months ago by World Wildlife Fund-India filmed the adult snow leopards in Kargil district just a few miles (kilometers) from the heavily militarized Line of Control that ...

Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday. Habitat loss, climate change and ...

A committee of experts is combining various studies across different times and regions to estimate Nepal’s snow leopard population for the first time using new standards. Past studies varied in their ...

They are rare, they are elusive and they are so well camouflaged, they are difficult to see, even when they are right there. That is why snow leopards are called the ‘Ghosts of the Himalaya’. And ...

Snow leopards have spotted white-greyish fur that keeps them well insulated in cold weather – it can be 5cm long on their back and sides and almost 12cm long on their belly. A snow leopard's tail can ...

Snow leopards or “grey ghosts of the mountains”, one of the world’s most elusive big cats and hard to track, are silently not only surviving but thriving in Jammu and Kashmir, according to findings of ...