Snow leopard: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Official Site of Snow Leopard Trust. Nov 08, 2026
Article thoroughly revised. Sep 25, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - Exceedingly low genetic diversity in snow leopards due to persistently small population size. Jul 09, 2026
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Royal Society Open Science - Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards. Apr 14, 2026
Add new Web site: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group - Snow Leopard. Mar 06, 2026
Add new Web site: Genome Biology - Genomic evidence for low genetic diversity but purging of strong deleterious variants in snow leopards. Oct 31, 2025
Add new Web site: World Wide Fund for Nature - What WWF-INDIA is Doing For Snow Leopard. Sep 19, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Seasonal variation in daily activity patterns of snow leopards and their prey. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia. Nov 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program - The Snow Leopard. Aug 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Clark Science Center at Smith College - Uncia uncia. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Range contraction of snow leopard (Panthera uncia). Dec 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Animal Corner - Snow Leopard. Oct 19, 2023
Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Snow Leopard. Aug 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Better Planet Education - Leopard (Snow) - Overview. Jun 30, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of Snow Leopard Trust. May 19, 2023
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Snow Leopard. Jan 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Untamed Science - Snow Leopard: Ghost of the Mountains. May 07, 2022
Changed conservation status of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia or Uncia uncia) from "endangered" to "vulnerable." Sep 15, 2017
Text added making clear that this species is classified as both Panthera uncia and Uncia uncia. Apr 24, 2015
Factors affecting the decline in the population of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia, also classified as Uncia uncia) added. Apr 24, 2015
Photo of snow leopard (Panthera uncia or Uncia uncia) added. Apr 24, 2015
Add new Web site: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Animals and Plants - Snow Leopard. Jun 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Defenders of Wildlife - Snow Leopard. Aug 20, 2012
Text noting the timing of genetic divergence of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) and tigers (Panthera tigris) from other big cats, as well as snow leopards and tigers, from each other added. Feb 16, 2010
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Snow Leopard. Sep 04, 2008
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Snow Leopard. Feb 28, 2008
Added new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Uncia uncia. Jul 13, 2006
Added new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Uncia uncia. Jul 13, 2006
Article revised. Mar 04, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 23, 1999
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