How many kinds of national protected animals are snow leopards?

Snow leopard is a national first-class protected animal. Snow leopard is a world-class endangered species, which has been listed in the White Paper on Animal Protection. It often lives in the inaccessible plateau of 2500-5000 meters, and the number of snow leopards in Xinjiang accounts for a quarter of the total number of snow leopards in the world.

Snow leopard is an important big cat carnivore and flagship species. Because it often moves near the snow line and between the snow, it is named "Snow Leopard". Snow leopards are native to the mountainous areas of Central Asia, and the high-altitude mountainous areas such as Tianshan Mountain in China are the main distribution areas of snow leopards. Its fur is gray, with black spots and black rings, and its tail is long and thick, so it is called "the snow king of the hills".

Characteristics and living habits of snow leopard;

Snow leopard is a rock animal in plateau area. It often moves in permanent snow and ice, bare rocks and cold desert areas. Snow leopards' footprints have been seen on the top ridge of Qilian Mountain from below 4500 meters to above 4 100 meters, and on the 5400-meter-high snow on the northern slope of Mount Everest.

Often inhabit the mountains at an altitude of 2500~5000 meters. It can be seen in the mountains of 3000~6000 meters in summer, and it usually drops to 2000~3500 meters in winter with the migration of food.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Pamirs Plateau in China are the main distribution areas of snow leopards. The total number of snow leopards in Qinghai is about 650. Together with Kunlun Mountain and Hoh Xil in the northwest of Qinghai, it is estimated that the number of snow leopards in Qinghai is not less than 1000. In Tibet, the distribution area of snow leopards is at least twice that of Qinghai. Together with Gansu, Xinjiang and northwest Sichuan, it is estimated that the total number of snow leopards in China is around 2,000-3,000.