Snow Leopard, South Asia

The snow leopard  is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. Snow leopards inhabit alpine and subalpine zones at elevations from 3,000 to 4,500 m. In the northern range countries, they also occur at lower elevations Taxonomically, the snow leopard was classified as Uncia uncia since the early 1930s. Based on genotyping studies.  Source