Seeing Spots
This extra-long body part can measure up to about 105cm and helps the snow leopard balance.
What is its tail?
Snow leopards live in the high mountains of this continent.
What is Asia?
Snow leopards are this type of animal, meaning they eat meat.
What is a carnivore?
For most of their lives, snow leopards live this way - alone, rather than in prides or packs.
What is solitarily?
On the international endangered species list, the snow leopard is classified in this threat category.
What is Vulnerable?
Snow leopards have large, broad feet with furry pads that work like these winter walking aids.
What are snowshoes?
Snow leopards are found across this number of Asian countries.
What is 12?
This large wild goat with impressive curved horns is an important snow leopard prey species.
What is ibex?
A baby snow leopard is called this.
What is a cub?
The global snow leopard population is estimated to include fewer than this number of mature individuals.
What is 10,000?
Snow leopards typically weigh between about 22 and 52 kilograms or roughly this many pounds.
What is 48-115 pounds?
This is the world's most populous country and a major part of the snow leopard's range.
What is China?
Snow leopards can kill prey weighing up to this many times their body weight.
What is 3 times?
At birth, snow leopard cubs are missing this one sense, until their eyes open about 1 week later.
What is blind?
Snow leopards are sometimes killed in retaliation for attacking this type of domestic animal.
What is livestock?
A snow leopard can leap this far - about 15 meters - while chasing prey.
What is about 49 feet?
This Himalayan country, home to Mount Everest, is within the snow leopard's range.
What is Nepal?
These large, burrowing rodents of high mountain grasslands are a smaller source of snow leopard food.
What are marmots?
Young snow leopards generally stay with their mother for about this long before becoming independent.
What is two years?
This global conservation organization uses a snow leopard in its logo and works to protect the species.
What is WWF? (World Wide Fund for Nature)
Snow leopards are most active around dawn and dusk, making them this type of animal.
What is crepuscular?
Because snow leopards are elusive and live in remote mountains, they have earned this mystical nickname.
What is "Ghost of the Mountains?"
Snow leopards often hunt by attacking from this position relative to their prey.
What is from above (a higher vantage point)?
Snow leopards communicate with each other with scent markings, scrapes and this vocal sound.
What is a chuff (chuffing) or "prusten" call?
International Snow Leopard Day is observed each year on this date in October.
What is October 23?