Snow Leopards

• The thick fur coat of a snow leopard is white in the winter and yellow-gray in the summer.
• A snow leopard's tail is almost as long as its entire body.
• Snow leopards wrap their tails around their bodies to keep warm.
• Snow leopards can leap up to 50 feet through the air.
• Only about 4,000 to 7,000 snow leopards remain in the wild.

Where do they live?
Snow leopards live in the mountains of about a dozen South and Central Asia countries.

Why are they endangered?

• Hunting
• Habitat loss
• Shrinking food supply

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