Has the chilling threat of extinction worn off at last for the long-endangered snow leopard? Not exactly - but the iconic big cats' conservation status has been improved from "endangered" to ...

For the eleventh year, October 23 marks International Snow Leopard Day. Only 3,500 to 7,000 of the beautiful speckled cats, listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of ...

A magnificent big cat indigenous to Central and South Asia, the snow leopard is renowned for its ... conservation measures are essential. The White Bengal Tiger is a rare variation of the Bengal ...

Bengal cats are a hybrid breed created in the 1960s by crossing domestic cats (Felis catus) with Asian leopard cats ...

The snow leopard, like all big cats, is listed in Appendix I of the ... Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, West Bengal. The zoo has successfully bred multiple snow leopards ...

while Bengals are actually bred from domestic shorthairs and the Asian Leopard Cat, which is technically a wild cat species! As a result, Bengal cats tend to be a little harder to "tame" and train ...