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1 Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) Reference list 1. Annenkov B. P The snow leopard (Uncia uncia) in the Dzungarsky Alatau. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Anonymous. 1987e. Silk road leads to snow leopard pelts. Snow Line 11, Barnes L The overt illegal fur trade in Kathmandu, Nepal. Unpubl. report, Inverness Research Associates, Inverness, California. 4. Anwar M. B., Jackson R., Nadeem M. S., Janecka J. E., Hussain S., Beg M. A., Muhammed G. & Qayyum M Food habits of the snow leopard Panthera uncia Schreber, 1775) in Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. Eur J Wildl Res 57(5), Blomqvist L First report on the snow leopard studbook (Panthera uncia) and the 1977 world register. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 1, Blomqvist L. ed International pedigree book of snow leopards, vol. 6. Helsinki Zoo, Finland. 7. Blomqvist L. & Sten I Reproductive biology of the snow leopard, Panthera uncia. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 2, Bold A. & Dorzhzunduy C Reports about the irbis of the southern mountains of the Gobi Altay. Trudy instituta obshchey i eksperimental noy biologii 11, (Ulan Bator). 9. Braden K. E The geographic distribution of snow leopards in the USSR. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 3, Cai G., Liu Y. & O Gara B. 1989b. Observations of large mammals in the Qaidam Basin and its peripheral mountainous area in the People s Republic of China. Can. J. Zool. 68, Chalise M. K Snow leopard (Uncia uncia). Prey species and outreach in Langtang National Park, Nepal. Our Nature, 9, Chundawat R. S. 1990b. Habitat selection by a snow leopard in Hemis National Park, India. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Chundawat R. S., Rodgers W. & Panwar H Status report on snow leopard in India. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. Freeman H. (Ed.) International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay, pp Chundawat R. S. & Rawat R.S Food habits of snow leopard in Ladakh, India. In Fox J. L. & Du Jizeng (Eds). Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. 15. Forrest J. L., Wikramanayake E., Shrestha R., Areendran G., Gyeltshen K., Maheshwari A., Mazumdar S., Naidoo R., Thapa G. J. & Thapa K Conservation and climate change: Assessing the vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya. Biological Conservation, 150, Fox J. L A review of the status and ecology of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia). 17. Fox J. L Snow leopard conservation in the wild -- a comprehensive perspective on a low density and highly fragmented population. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. Fox J. L & Du Jizeng (Eds). 18. Fox J. L. & Chundawat R. S Observations of snow leopard stalking, killing, and feeding behavior. Mammalia 52(1), Fox J. L., Nurbu C. & Chundawat R. S. 1991b. The mountain ungulates of Ladakh, India. Biol. Conserv. 58,

2 20. Fox J. L., Sinha S. P., Chundawat R. S. & Das P.K. 1991a. Status of the snow leopard Panthera uncia in North-west India. Biological Conservation 55, Fox J. L. & Du Jizeng (Eds) Proc. of the seventh international snow leopard symposium. 22. Freeman H A preliminary study of the behaviour of captive snow leopards. Int. Zoo Yearb. 15, Freeman H Social behavior in the snow leopard. American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria Annual Proceedings. San Diego, pp Freeman H. (Ed.) Proc. of the fifth international snow leopard symposium. International Snow Leopard Trust and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay. 25. Govt. of India The snow leopard conservation scheme. Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India, New Delhi. 26. Green M. J. B Protected areas and snow leopards: their status. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. Freeman H. (Ed.). International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay, pp Green M. J. B Protecting the mountains of Central Asia and their snow leopard populations. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. Fox J. L. & Du Jizeng (Eds). Unc. 28. Gurung G. S Enhancing herder s livelihoods and conserving the snow leopard in Nepal. Cat News 55, Hast M. H The larynx of roaring and non-roaring cats. J. Anat. 163, Hemmer H Uncia uncia. Mammal. Species 20, Heptner V. G. & Sludskii A. A [Mammals of the Soviet Union. Vol III: Carnivores (Feloidea).] Vyssha Shkola, Moscow (in Russian). Engl. transl. edited by R.S. Hoffmann, Smithsonian Inst. and the Natl. Science Fndn., Washington D.C., International Snow Leopard Trust (ISLT) Assessing presence, relative abundance and habitat of snow leopard and their prey: a handbook of field techniques. Seattle, Washington. 33. Jackson R., Mallon D., McCarthy T., Chundaway R. A. & Habib, B Panthera uncia. In IUCN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version < Last accessed Jackson R. M., Munkhtsog B., Mallon D. P., Naranbaatar G. & Gerelmaa K Cameratrapping snow leopards in the Tost Uul region of Mongolia. Cat News 51, Jackson R Snow leopards in Nepal. Oryx 15, Jackson R Snow leopard. Unpubl. data sheet, IUCN/SSC/Cat Specialist Group, Bougy- Villars, Switzerland. 37. Jackson R. & Ahlborn G A preliminary habitat suitability model for the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in West Nepal. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 4, Jackson R. & Ahlborn G Observations on the ecology of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in west Nepal. Pp in H. Freeman, ed. Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay. 39. Jackson R. & Ahlborn G Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in Nepal: home range and movements. Nat. Geogr. Research 5(2), Jackson R. & Ahlborn G The role of protected areas in Nepal in maintaining viable populations of snow leopards. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Jackson R., Wang Z.Y., Lu X.D. & Chen Y Snow leopards in the Qomolangma Nature Reserve of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In J.L. Fox and Du Jizeng eds. Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. 2

3 42. Janecka J. E., Munkhtsog B., Jackson R.M., Naranbaatar G., Mallon D. P. & Murphy W. J Comparison of noninvasive genetic and camera-trapping techniques for surveying snow leopards. J Mamm 92(4), Jones M. L Record keeping and longevity of felids in captivity. In The world s cats 3: contributions to breeding, behavior, management and husbandry. Eaton R. L. (Ed.). Carnivore Res. Inst., Univ. Washington, Seattle, pp Karmachara D. B Noninvasive genetic population survey of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in Kangchenjunga conservation area, Shey Phoksundo National Park and surrounding buffer zones of Nepal. Bio Med Central, 4, Kitchener A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilritng A., Yamaguchi N., Bramov A. V., Christiansen P., DriscollC., Duckworth J. W., Johnson W., Luo S.- J., Meijaard E., O Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M., Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classificaiton Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp. 46. Koshkarev E. P Characteristics of snow leopard (Uncia uncia) movements in the Tien Shan. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 4, Koshkarev E. P Snow leopards in Kirgizia: status and ecology. (in Russian). Acad. Sci., Moscow. 48. Koshkarev E. P On the environment-related stability of snow leopard (Uncia uncia) populations in connection with its location in the natural habitats and chances for spread within the USSR. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Li J., Yin H., Wang D., Jiagong Z. & Lu, Z Human-snow leopard conflicts in the Sanjiangyuan Region of the Tibetan Plateau. Biological conservation 166, Li J., Wang D., Yin H., Zhaxi D., Jiagong Z., Schaller G., Mishra C., McCarthy T.M. Wang H. Wu L., Basang L., Zhang Y., Zhou Y. & Lu, Z Role of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Snow Leopard Conservation. Conservation Biology Lovari S., Minder I., Ferretti F., Mucci N., Randi E. & Pellizzi B Common and snow leopards share prey, but not habitats: competition avoidance by large predators. Journal of Zoology 291, Liao Y. F. & Tan B. J A preliminary study on the geographical distribution of snow leopards in China. Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. In Freeman H. (Ed.). International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay, pp Lovari S., Minder I., Ferretti F., Mucci N., Randi E. & Pellizzi B Common and snow leopards share prey, but not habitats: competition avoidance by large predators. Journal of Zoology, 291, Lovari S., Boesi R., Minder I., Mucci N., Randi E., Dematteis A. & Ale S. B Restoring a keystone predator may endanger a prey species in a human-altered ecosystem: the return of the snow leopard to Sagarmatha National Park. Animal Conservation 12, Low J The smuggling of endangered wildlife across the Taiwan Strait. TRAFFIC International, Cambridge 56. Maheshwari A., Sharma D. & Sathyakumar S Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) surveys in the Western Himalayas, India. Journal of Ecology and Nature Environment 5 (10), Maheshwari A. & Sharma D Snow leopard conservation in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh New Dehli: WWF India, 70 p. 58. Maheshwari A., Takpa J., Kujur S. & Shawl T An Investigation of Carnivore-Human Conflicts in Kargil and Drass areas of Jammu and Kashmir, India WWF Departement of Wildlife protection J & K GOVT, 30 p. 59. Mallon D. P. 1984a. The snow leopard in Ladakh. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 4,

4 60. Mallon D. P. 1984b. The snow leopard, Panthera uncia, in Mongolia. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 4, Maming R Market prices for the tissues and organs of snow leopards in China. Selevinia, 20, McCarthy T., Mallon D., Jackson R., Zahler, P. & McCarthy K Panthera uncia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.t22732a Downloaded on 18 September Miller D. J. & Jackson R Livestock and snow leopards: making room for competing users on the Tibetan Plateau. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. Fox J. L. & Du Jizeng (Eds). 64. Ming M., Munkhtsog B., McCarthy T. & McCarthy K Monitoring of population density of snow leopard in Xinjiang. Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment, 27(1), Nichols D. G., Fuller K. S., McShane-Caluzi E. & Klerner-Eckenrode E Wildlife trade laws of Asia and Oceania. A.L. Gaski and G. Hemley, eds. TRAFFIC USA, WWF-US, Washington D.C. 66. Nowell K., Li J., Paltsyn M. & Sharma R. K An Ounce of Prevention: Snow Leopard Crime Revisited. TRAFFIC, Cambridge, UK. 67. Oli M. K The ecology and conservation of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. M.Phil. Thesis, Univ. Edinburgh, Edinburgh. 68. Oli M. K Snow leopards and a local human population in a protected area: a case study from the Nepalese Himalaya. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. Fox J. L. & Du Jizeng (Eds). 69. Oli M. K., Taylor I. R. & Rogers M. E. In press. Diet of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. J. Zool., Lond. 70. Oswell A. H The Big Cat Trade in Myanmar and Thailand TRAFFIC Southeast Asia; 42 p. 71. Paltsyn M., Spitsyn S. V., Kuksin A. N. & Istomov S. V Snow leopard conservation in Russia, pp Peters G The vocal repertoire of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia, Schreber 1775). Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 2, Rabinowitz A Jaguar predation on domestic livestock in Belize. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 14, Rieger I Oestrus timing in ounces, Uncia uncia, Schreber (1775). Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 4, Roberts T.J The mammals of Pakistan. Ernest Benn, London. 76. Schaller G. B Mountain mammals in Pakistan. Oryx 13, Schaller G. B Mountain monarchs: wild sheep and goats of the Himalaya. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago. 78. Schaller G. B Saving China s wildlife. Int. Wildl. 20(1), Schaller G. B., Li H., Lu H., Ren J.R., Qiu M.J. & Wang H. B Status of large mammals in the Taxkorgan Reserve, Xinjiang, China. Biol. Conserv. 42, Schaller G. B., Ren J. R. & Qiu M. J. 1988a. Status of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in Qinghai and Gansu provinces, China. Biol. Conserv. 45, Schaller G. B., Li H. T., Ren J. R. & Qiu M. J. 1988b. The snow leopard in Xinjiang, China. Oryx 22, Schaller G. B., Tserendeleg J. & Amarsanaa G Observations on snow leopards in Mongolia. In. Proceedings of the Seventh International Snow Leopard Symposium. Fox J.L. & Du Jizeng (Eds). 4

5 83. Shehzad W., McCarthy T. M., Pompanon F., Purejav L., Coissac E., Riaz T. & Taberlet P Prey Preference of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia. PLOS ONE 7(2), Simms A., Moheb Z., Salahudin Ali H., Ali I. & Wood T Saving threatened species in Afghanistan: snow leopards in the Wakhan Corridor. International Journal of Environmental Studies 68(3), Smirnov M. N., Sokolov G. A. & Zyryanov A. N The snow leopard (Uncia uncia, Schreber 1776) in Siberia. Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Smith A. T., Formozov N. A., Hoffmann R. S., Zheng C.-L. & Erbajeva M. A The pikas. in. Rabbits, hares and pikas: status survey and conservation action plan. Chapman J. A. & Flux J. E. C. (Eds). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, pp Sokov A.I The present status of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) population in the SW Pamir-Altai Mountains (Tadhikistan). Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6, Sopin L. V The snow leopard in Altai. In Sokolov V. E. (Ed.) Rare species of mammals and their conservation: materials of the second all-union conference. Nauka, Moscow. pp (In Russian). 89. Stroganov S. U Carnivorous mammals of Siberia. Engl. transl., Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem. 90. Subbotin A. E. & Istomov S. V The population status of snow leopards Uncia uncia (Felidae, Carnivora) in the western Sayan mountain ridge. Doklady Biological Sciences 425, Suryawanshi K. R., Bhatnagar Y. V. B., Redpath S. & Mishra C People, predators and perceptions: patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves. Journal of Applied Ecology 50, Tytar V. & Hammer M Mountain ghosts: snow leopards and other animals in the mountains of the Altai Republic, Central Asia, pp Wegge P., Shrestha R. & Flagstad O Snow leopard Panthera uncia predation on livestock and wild prey in a mountain valley in northern Nepal: implications for conservation management. Wildlife Biology 18, Wemmer C. & Sunquist M.E Felid reintroductions: economic and energetic considerations. Pp in H. Freeman, ed. Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay. 95. Wharton D. & Freeman H The snow leopard in North America: captive breeding under the Species Survival Plan. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Snow Leopard Symposium. Freeman H. (Ed.). International Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, and Wildlife Institute of India. Conway, Bombay, pp Wildt D. E., Mellen J. D. & Seal U. S. (Eds). 1992a. Felid action plan, 1991 and 1992: AAZPA Felid Taxon Advisory Group regional collection plan and IUCN Captive Breeding Specialist Group global felid action plan. National Zoological Park, Front Royal, Virginia. 97. Zhirjakov V. A On the ecology of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) in the Zailisky-Alatau (Northern Tien Shan). Intl. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 6,

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