Gansu, a place full of Northwest flavor.
On October 21, the infrared camera office of Yeluocam National Nature Reserve in Annanba, Gansu welcomed the "King of Snow Mountains".
long tail and leopard-like body, you can deeply feel the power of the "King of Snow Mountain" from outside the camera. In the
screen, two snow leopards walked together, setting out further towards the destination, looking extremely powerful.
Who knows that he was still a tiger in the last second, but the next second he turned into a cat in the second, lying on the ground and rolling around.
lying on the ground, stretching leisurely, and rubbing his mouth with his front paws.
The next second, I turned over and instantly returned to my domineering look.
If it weren't for the infrared camera to happen to record it, it seemed that the cute appearance of the last second had never happened.
In this mythical Kunlun Mountain area in our country, it seems deserted, but in fact it is the hometown of the snow leopard, the most beautiful animal in the cat family.
They are not like tigers occasionally gathered together and lived in groups for a while, and they are not distributed around the world like tigers.
If the Kunlun Mountains are the hometown of snow leopards, the mountainous areas in central Asia are the birthplace of the snow leopard population.
These cliffs, cold places that seem unattainable to humans, are paradises in their dreams.
rock climbing, high jumping are their strengths.
3-4 meters cliff is a piece of cake for them. You just need to activate your body gently to jump down easily.
Look, there is a snow leopard mother in the Japanese zoo teaching the snow leopard to jump. The little snow leopard is very scared, and the snow leopard mother is behind the scenes to help it grow.
If you live in a relatively high altitude in the wild and have fewer prey, they will go out in the early morning, follow the snow-capped mountains, leave their own footprints, and go to areas with relatively low altitudes to find prey.
If you find prey, even if they are fifty or sixty meters apart, they will not be afraid at all. Roll directly along the direction of the mountain to the prey and capture it.
If a human jumps from a few dozen meters, there may be only a handful of dust left in the end. Snow leopards can land perfectly.
This is because there is a long tail behind the snow leopard, which can help the snow leopard's body maintain balance.
If you live in an extremely cold area, your long velvet tail can also keep you warm.
When the sun rises, the snow leopard will bask in the sun lazily on the snow, and life is very comfortable.
If you go out to hunt in the early morning and have no harvest, the snow leopard will still look for prey at dusk and continue to search according to the footprints left before.
Look, this snow leopard photographed in Gansu is looking for food, and its figure is so cute.
However, although it is so cute, it also has a very similar side to a tiger: a very strong sense of territory.
It does not occasionally live in groups like tigers, it is more like a social terrorist. The same kind of searches, and the true thought in his heart is: "I can't see me, I can't see me."
So, It often rubs its head against the stone and leaves its odor, leaving its own urine at a distance.
Snow Leopard's urine has two meanings: First, this is my territory, and it is not something you can step on! Second, beauties, are you dating? .
The annual ice and snow melting season is the season for snow leopards to seek objects.
Every this season, the hormones in their bodies will continue to gush out and sway around the territorial borders. If a better object is found, they will use all their strength to complete their reproduction.
each time lasts about a few seconds to dozens of seconds, and it takes many times a day.
According to incomplete statistics, a snow leopard pees on the handstand more than 30 times a day as long as it is during the blind date season.
When the female snow leopard and the male snow leopard have spent the seven or eight days in estrus, the female snow leopard will take the child in her belly, leave the male snow leopard and swagger away from the place.
Snow Leopard's love is quite meaningful to "get away from the father and leave the son".
Female snow leopards are pregnant for about 90-105 days. They will give birth to cubs from mid-April to early June every year, with about two or three in each litter, some one or four or five.
For about four or five months, the little snow leopard will go out to hunt with the snow leopard mother. When you are one or two years old, the little snow leopard will leave your mother and build your own home.
Although the little snow leopards are small, they seem to have a superpower, and the more difficult the environment is, the stronger it is.
Plateau animals mainly composed of goats are their favorite food . If you don’t have some plants , you can also enjoy your hunger for a short time.
They will lurk in places where the prey is not paying attention to, and capture it at a speed that is lightning-thunderous.
If they escape, they will play their strongest scaves and chase their prey tightly until they are subdued.
The harsh living environment also exercises their strong self-healing ability.
A camera captured a snow leopard falling from a 60-meter cliff in order to prey and injured its leg. Unexpectedly, three days later, the same snow leopard recovered so much that it was not obvious that it had been injured.
For some elderly snow leopards, their physical functions are degraded and their hunting ability is not that strong, so they will target the goats in the herdsmen's homes.
While the herdsmen were not paying attention, they stole the goats and had a full meal.
In recent years, some young snow leopards have also gone down the mountain to steal goats from herders' homes, mainly because of food scarcity in habitat.
At present, humans overcapture and sell wild animals. Their population is smaller than that of giant pandas, out of endangered areas. The food in the snow leopards' survival areas has reduced, which has forced them to find another way out.
If you want to change this phenomenon, everyone needs to contribute and all departments need to cooperate with each other.
