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Snow LeopardThe Snow Leopard is distributed through the mountain ranges of Afghanistan and Russia through to the Himalayas to Mongolia and China (16). The Snow Leopards habitat consists of high altitude mountain ranges, territories consisting of a large amount of space due to generally low prey density (14). | LeopardThe Leopard has the most widespread distribution of all the cats. Sub populations of the Leopard live in Africa, India, Asia Minor, China, Siberia and Korea. In this blog we will be focusing on comparing the common Leopard to the Snow Leopard. The common Leopard's habitat mainly consists of from sub-desert habitats to tropical/boreal forests (16). |