Their short forelimbs and long hind limbs make them very agile, and they can jump as much as 50 feet in length. Snow leopards also have very long, thick tails that they use for balancing on rocks and wrapping around their bodies for protection from the cold. WWF relies on spot patterns to identify individual snow leopards when conducting camera trap research. Rosettes are large rings enclosing smaller spots. Snow leopards have thick grey and yellow-tinged fur, with solid spots on their head, neck and lower limbs and rosettes over the rest of the body. They are found in 12 countries-including China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Mongolia. In the Himalayas, snow leopards live in high alpine areas, mostly above the tree line and up to 18,000 feet in elevation. Snow leopards live across a vast area in northern and central Asia's high mountains, including the Himalayan region. Here’s a look at what you should know about the species: 1. WWF works to reduce human-wildlife conflict, increase anti-poaching efforts, and protect the fragile snow leopard habitat. But these majestic and elusive cats face many threats including habitat loss and degradation from climate change and human encroachment, retaliatory killings resulting from human-wildlife conflict, reduced prey, and poaching. They scale the great, steep slopes of mountains in Central Asia with ease, blending into the landscape. Snow leopards have evolved to live in some of the harshest conditions on Earth.
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