How to Use snow leopard in a Sentence
snow leopard
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The first snow leopard to live at the zoo arrived in 1949.
— Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2021 -
In the image, the snow leopard is seen with two shots in its hind leg.
— Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018 -
That’s Peter Matthiessen, in awe of the rare snow leopard, from the classic 1978 book of the same name.
— National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2019 -
In ten years, all the snow leopards and polar bears might be gone.
— Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Well, his daemon is a snow leopard, which should tell you a lot.
— Wired, 29 Oct. 2019 -
Just above the rock, Karnaukhov found snow leopard scat.
— John Wendle, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017 -
When measured from nose to tail tip, the snow leopard’s tail can make up half of their body length.
— Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023 -
How can a snow leopard’s tail act as both rudder and nose warmer?
— Eve Conant, National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2020 -
In May, the first snow leopard cub was born in Milwaukee in six years.
— Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020 -
Deep in the mountains of North India, by the rivers of ice and in valleys of snow, roams the elusive snow leopard.
— Shradha Shahani, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Bronx-Sized When a snow leopard suddenly falls ill, the staff scrambles to learn the cause.
— Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021 -
At Stone Zoo, that includes the jaguar, snow leopards, black bears and white-cheeked gibbons.
— Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024 -
Zigsa: Tibetan term for snow leopard Want more Akron news?
— Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019 -
Zookeepers hope Choto will breed with the zoo's 9-year-old female snow leopard, Orya.
— Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Jessie’s last gift to her mother had been a donation to a wildlife fund that came with a plush snow leopard.
— Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Of course, snow leopards are far from the speediest creatures roaming the earth, sky and sea.
— Chris Wilson, Time, 13 Feb. 2018 -
The snow leopard in the winning photo is one of only 6,500 living snow leopards left in the wild.
— Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023 -
The snow leopard lives mostly on mountain sheep, ibex, pikas, and marmot.
— Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021 -
In 2018 alone, the zoo welcomed three baby snow leopards and two rhinos, Lulu and Nia.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2019 -
In the next episode, which is about mountains, we are set down beside a howling snow leopard high on a Himalayan ridge.
— Sebastian Smee, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019 -
The species at the heart of this year's work includes musk ox, penguins, snow leopards, saki and muriqui monkeys as well as the health of the oceans and aquatic species as a whole.
— Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2018 -
First whales, then snow leopards, and finally gray wolves.
— Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Kenney recalls a woman at one of his shows turning to see his sculpture of a snow leopard crouched down like it’s on the prowl.
— Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020 -
The brother-sister pair of snow leopards were born at the zoo four months ago and are finally ready to explore the great outdoors.
— Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017 -
These coats were made from the skins of some of the most endangered big cats including snow leopard, jaguar and ocelote that were killed to produce the fashion items.
— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Until Victoria arrived, the 7-year-old Raj was the lone snow leopard in Battle Creek.
— USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020 -
Tomiris, a 17-year-old female snow leopard at the Milwaukee County Zoo, died April 10.
— Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2018 -
According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than 70 percent of snow leopard habitat has not been explored.
— Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Later at Big Cat Rescue, she was psyched there was a snow leopard at that sanctuary.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 17 Apr. 2020 -
As a famously elusive species, the snow leopard often slips past research efforts.
— Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
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