January 2009

Snow for snow leopards at Bronx Zoo

January 2, 2009 Snow leopards in Zoos

New York City is getting lots of winter snow and one inhabitant that loves it is Shelby, one of the snow leopards at the Bronx Zoo. Bronx Zoo has bred more snow leopards in captivity than any other zoo in the world. It also does a lot of work to protect snow leopards in the [...]

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Tough country – the places snow leopards call ‘home’.

January 2, 2009 Snow leopard habitat

Snow leopards like very steep and rugged terrain in high altitudes. They like cliffs and ridges to survey for prey and they like gullies and rocky outcrops to hide. They live in the Himalayas and adjacent mountain ranges at elevations of 3000 to over 5000 m (10,000 to 17,000 feet) in what is some of [...]

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Melbourne Zoo snow leopard update

January 2, 2009 Snow leopards in Zoos

Goodbye Gregor Sadly I heard news the other day that Gregor, our lovely 20 year old male, had died at the Zoo. He was so beautiful and will be missed by visitors, snow leopard sponsors and especially his keepers who all felt he was really special. Gregor reached a pretty good age though, as in [...]

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Treating injured snow leopards in zoos

January 2, 2009 Snow leopards in Zoos

All keepers know how difficult it can be to treat an injured or sick snow leopard. The team at Tama Zoo in Tokyo recently had to deal with their 4 month old cub, Suou, who had a broken leg. The challenge was not to separate him from the rest of his family at such young [...]

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