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Plant eating Snow leopards
June 17 , 2024
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- Japanese scientists have found that, the snow leopard, the iconic predator of the snows of High Mountain Asia does eat plants.
- The furry felid particularly eats plants of the Myricaria genus.
- These plants are mostly shrubs and are found across the temperate parts of Europe and Asia.
- The snow leopard is not the first cat to be found consuming plants.
- There are 41 species of living felids or cats in the world.
- Researchers have previously found plants in the faeces of 24 species.
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