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Snow Leopards

Snow Leopards. By: Jeremy Enneking. Phylum. Chordata bilateral symmetry segmented body including segmented muscles three germ layers and a well-developed coelom. Single, dorsal, hollow nerve cord, usually with an enlarged anterior end (brain)

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Snow Leopards

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  1. Snow Leopards By: Jeremy Enneking

  2. Phylum • Chordata • bilateral symmetry segmented body • including segmented muscles three germ layers and a well-developed coelom. • Single, dorsal, hollow nerve cord, usually with an enlarged anterior end (brain) • tail projecting beyond (posterior to) the anus at some stage of development • pharyngeal pouches present at some stage of development ventral heart, with dorsal and ventral blood vessels and a closed blood system • complete digestive system • bony or cartilaginous endoskeleton usually present.

  3. Class • Mammalia which means “warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female”

  4. Species • The species is the Panthera uncia uncia which means “snow leopard”

  5. Eats? • It’s a carnivore, it eats meat! • In the wild, it eats mountain goats, sheep, deer, boar, marmots, and pika. Look at those teeth!!! Wouldn’t you love to get bit by them?

  6. Habitat • Rocky terrain • Alpine meadows • Lives in central Asia, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union.

  7. Color and Size • The adults can weigh up to 150 pounds and are white to smokey-gray fur tinged with yellow and patterned with dark-gray to black rosettes and spots47 to 59 inches in length, while its tail is 31 to 39 inches long

  8. Appendages • The appendages are its tail and its four legs. The tail is used for steering the leopard in the water and for balance while jumping. Also when they are cubs, the mother pulls their tail to steer the cubs. 2 back legs 2 front legs

  9. Threats • Poaching - the killing of snow leopards to sell the fur • Loss of prey – the food supply low • Killing because of something the animal did • WE ARE THE MAIN REASON FOR MOST ANIMALS BECOMING ENDANGERED!!!!!!

  10. Reproduction • Sexual maturity is reached at the age of two years. • Mating occurs between December and March, and most births occur after 100 days of gestation • The infants are blind for about nine days • an average 2-3 cubs are born per litter

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