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Preliminary results from applying satellite-tracking on snow leopards for the first time in China

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2022
The lack of snow leopards telemetry studies in China has hampered researchers in studying the movement ecology and home range sizes of snow leopards, the knowledge gap of which has affected effective planning and improvement of snow leopard protected ...
Chenxing Yu   +13 more
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A new multiplex qPCR assay to detect and differentiate big cat species in the illegal wildlife trade

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
All species of big cats, including tigers, cheetahs, leopards, lions, snow leopards, and jaguars, are protected under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is due in large part to population declines resulting from
Carol S. Henger   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Livestock limits snow leopard’s space use by suppressing its prey, blue sheep, at Gongga Mountain, China

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2021
The habitats of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are heavily utilized as pasturelands on the Tibetan Plateau. Livestock can benefit the snow leopard populations via providing extra prey resources.
Chuangming Yang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A pilot study—genetic diversity and population structure of snow leopards of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, using molecular techniques [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2019
Background The Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain ranges in Pakistan’s northern areas are a natural habitat of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia) but the ecological studies on this animal are scarce since it is human shy by nature and ...
Samreen Aruge   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A global view on evidence‐based effectiveness of interventions used to protect livestock from wild cats

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
Rapid population declines of wild cats (family Felidae) are often related to widespread conflicts with people over the livestock depredation they are causing.
Igor Khorozyan, Matthias Waltert
doaj   +1 more source

Functional Adaptations in the Forelimb of the Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)

open access: yesIntegrative and Comparative Biology, 2021
Abstract The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is anatomically and physiologically adapted for life in the rocky terrain of alpine zones in Central and South Asia. Panthera uncia is scansorial, and typically hunts solitarily by using overhead ambush of prey, rather than the typical stalking pattern of other large pantherines.
Heather F Smith   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

О новой встрече снежного барса Panthera uncia (Scherber, 1775) на территории Катон-Карагайского национального парка (Юго-Западный Алтай, Восточный Казахстан)

open access: yesActa Biologica Sibirica, 2019
В заметке приводятся сведения по новой встрече снежного барса Panthera uncia (Scherber, 1775), редкого вида млекопитающих, занесенного в Красную книгу Республики Казахстан и Красный список Международного союза охраны природы (МСОП), на территории Катон ...
А.У. Габдуллина   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age estimation using methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting (MS-HRM) in both healthy felines and those with chronic kidney disease

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Age is an important ecological tool in wildlife conservation. However, it is difficult to estimate in most animals, including felines—most of whom are endangered.
Huiyuan Qi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Peripheral nerves of the brachial plexus, nerve root origins, and muscles innervated in Panthera uncia and Felis catus.

open access: yes, 2023
Peripheral nerves of the brachial plexus, nerve root origins, and muscles innervated in Panthera uncia and Felis catus.
Ana Suarez-Venot (16806701)   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Mammal inventory in the Mongolian Gobi, with the southeasternmost documented record of the Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775), in the country [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2019
Studies on mammal diversity and distribution are an important source to develop conservation and management strategies. The area located in southern Mongolia, encompassing the Alashan Plateau Semi-Desert and the Eastern Gobi Desert-Steppe ecoregions, is ...
Claudio Augugliaro   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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