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🐆Snow leopard
The snow leopard is a felid species in the genus Panthera. It has a thick whitish to grey fur with black spots on the head and neck, with larger rosettes on the back, flanks and bushy tail. Males are larger than the females, and both sexes have long canine teeth. Its small rounded ears, broad paws, and thick tails are adaptations for living in cold, mountainous environments.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- 48 kg
- Body length
- 1.22 m
- Shoulder height
- 0.6 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 21 years
Everything we know about the Snow leopard
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass48 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Body length1.22 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Shoulder height0.6 mheight at the shouldersDetails ↓Hide ↑
"height at the shoulders is about 0.6 m" (in: "This great cat has a length of head and body of about 1.0 to 1.3 m; the tail about 0.8 to 1 m ...; height at the shoulders is about 0.6 m; weight is 25 to 75 kg."). Typical value, no range given, sex not stated. Corroborated by the Snow Leopard Survival Strategy 2014: "a shoulder height of c. 60 cm" (citing Hemmer 1972, Johansson et al. 2013).
Source: Hemmer 1972, Mammalian Species 20:1-5 (as Uncia uncia), https://doi.org/10.2307/3503882 · see citation
Brain mass110 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan21 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length7.99 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation98 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range23 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.07 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l48 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Snow leopard yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyFelidae
- ›genusUncia
- ›speciesUncia uncia
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyFelidae
- genusPanthera
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyFelidae
- genusPanthera
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