Four baby snow leopards in Mongolia

This January 2017 camera trap video shows a snow leopard with four babies in Mongolia. Four young snow leopards is very rare.

A recent research paper reveals that there are three sub-species of snow leopard. Until now, researchers had assumed this species, Panthera uncia, was monotypic: here.

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