Nutrition

What do they eat?	Wild sheep, wild boar, hares (pikas), mice, deer, marmots, small mammals, mountain ungulates, gallinaceous fowl, wild goat (ibex), tahr, bharal (blue sheep), takin, goral, serow, musk ox, ptarmigan, pheasant, boar, badgers, roe deer, sika deer
How do they acquire their food? Watch how a wild snow leopard acquires food	Attack, ambush, stalk, jump off cliff/ledge onto prey’s back
Eating which food can get snow leopards in trouble	Domestic livestock & pets Rarely they attack humans
What position do they feed in?	Standing up or crouched
When conditions are poor what type of prey do they seek?	Smaller prey
When conditions are good what type of prey do they seek?	Larger prey
What time of day do snow leopards hunt?	Night- they are nocturnal animals
Do they cover large distances to acquire prey?	Very large- typically they follow their favorite paths and can travel 36 square miles
Does their hunting range ever differ?	Yes- when it becomes winter they follow their prey lower down the mountains and in summer they along with their prey travel back up the mountains
A large kill will supply a snow leopard with food for how many days?	3-4 days
A snow leopard can take down prey how much larger than itself?	A snow leopard can prey on animals 2-3 times larger than itself!!