They found that snow leopards differ from their common relatives in many ways. Common leopards are built to hunt agile, ...

Our first destination was a hunting camp high in the Tien Shan ... a pack of long-horned argali sheep, a favorite prey of the snow leopard, were watching us approach. But before I could get ...

In less than a minute, the snow leopard had its prey in its jaws, and proceeded to carry it back to its den. Both species are very well camouflaged and extremely hard to spot. While large birds of ...

The wild mountain sheep and goats that they prey on are declining in some parts of the snow leopard range too, because of competition for grazing land from livestock and illegal hunting. With ...

This was a stark contrast with what I had always previously understood – that locals did not get on with snow leopards, as they hunt their livestock ... and its main prey, the blue sheep ...

Snow leopards live in some of the most extreme habitats in the world. They are now classed as vulnerable and are threatened by climate change, mining and hunting, which targets both them and their ...

I have been on top of this hill in the northern Indian territory of Ladakh for more than four hours, waiting for an elusive snow leopard to emerge from his resting place on a neighboring hill.