Snow Leopard (Uncia Uncia)
If you like high places, you may like my home. Some of the highest places in the world are my home, and I often have a beautiful view of Mount Everest, (have you spotted it on my map?)
Snow Leopards love to roam in the high, wide open and very cold (especially when it's snowy) mountains of Central Asia. But you will have to look hard to spot me as my coat is perfect for camouflaging me in the snowy rocky terrain. My stunning extra long tail provides extra balance as I leap gracefully from one mountainous point to another - it also works beautifully as a very stylish scarf to keep my nose warm on really cold nights!
I don't wish to boast, but is has been said by more than a few people that I am one of the most beautiful big cats in the world, but although I am very lovely, I'm rather shy - you won't catch me on a cat walk!
Actually my beauty has been the reason we are so endangered, people keep hunting us for our beautiful furry coats, and despite a worldwide ban on hunting, we now find traditional medicine makers after us for our bones, and on top of all that our habitat is now under threat from domestic herds - things are really getting very tricky for us, but we are too shy make too much of a scene about it.
What can you do for us? Well wear this fantastic organic T-shirt with my picture on it, its bright colour will get you noticed - no camouflage there! Go out and strut your stuff in it on the worldwide cat walk for me, and tell them all I really, really need even more protection.
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