Winter weather will make an unexpected appearance at the Santa Barbara Zoo, with 80 tons of snow transforming the grounds ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a carnivorous hunter admired for its striking coat of white, yellow, or grey fur with black rosettes. Snow leopards live mainly in the alpine and subalpine ...

Layan explores his new habitat at the Santa Barbara Zoo. (Courtesy photo) Just in time for the holidays, the Santa Barbara Zoo is welcoming its coolest new resident, Layan (pronounced LAY-in), a ...

Among the least known and elusive cats in the world, the snow leopard lives above the tree line, where it hunts. Solitary and nocturnal, the leopard's thick fur adapts it to the cold climate. That ...

The snow leopard has long been one of the least studied – and therefore poorly understood – of the large cats. No longer. The snow leopard has long been one of the least studied -- and therefore ...

Snow leopards are solitary, mountain-dwelling mammals found throughout 12 countries in Central and South Asia. They have a small and decreasing population throughout a large range. These elusive cats ...

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