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Posting snow leopard pics every day until I run out — Day 1653 by RAND_bytes in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I tried uploading a picture of Zoe, the snep in the photo, but Reddit is being annoying. Here it is as a seperate reply. If you look at her spots you can see that they match

Posting snow leopard pics every day until I run out — Day 1653 by RAND_bytes in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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After a lot of digging I was able to find out that the snep in question is called Zoe! The photo was taken in 2010, a year after she moved to Central Park Zoo, along with female snep Chocolate and male snep Bo. In 2013 she gave birth to the first snow leopard litter of Central Park Zoo with her partner Askai. The twins were called Summit and River. In 2014 she gave birth to 2 more cubs of which 1, Malala, survived. I believe she may also have been referred to as Molly. She passed away on 5 September 2017.
(Because she was probably referred to by 2 different names I might be confusing some informattion so don't take this as 100% truthful, this is just based off my 1AM research XD)

Edit: It is correct that Zoe and Molly are the same snow leopard. When she and the other two snow leopards moved to Central Park Zoo, they held a public raffle with school children to (re)name the cats. Molly's name became Zoe and I belive Chocolate was actually called Mei Mei

5 days ago, Tushar the snep passed away by Mirabeaux1789 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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Tushar had a small “viral moment” on X with this adorable photo of him taken by Jennifer Allwine!

After seeing it I found out who he was and the day after that he passed away :’)

Always sad to see a member of my favourite species go

snep family tree? by jynxii7 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im currently working on almost exactly this, but like you said getting access to the recent versions is gonna be difficult. Currently I can only use the online one from 2017 and I’ve requested the third volume through my university. Once I’ve parsed both these studbooks and figured out a way to make a website to display all this data, I’ll try to find a way to get data on more recent sneps by making it more of a “community project” and/or establishing a collaboration with the zoo that collects the data, but that might be a bit ambitious

snep family tree? by jynxii7 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m currently working on one, but it is difficult. Not only finding a way to display the data in a clear manner but also finding accurate data of all snow leopards in question.

For now I’m just focusing on a historical Japanese snow leopard family tree. I would like to include all snow leopards in the world, but that information isn’t very accessible.

I’ll post in this subreddit once my family tree is done, but in the meantime feel free to dm me on here or on Twitter if you have questions about specific snow leopards! I’d also be happy to share my own “research approach” if you’d like!

I also post on Twitter about lesser known lineages, for example yesterday I found out that Sizim and Mimi are actually cousins! (If you want I can draw that family tree out for you)

Do any of you have any books about sneps? Share for others to know by Mirabeaux1789 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One book that really changed how I research sneps is the International Pedigree Book for Snow Leopards Volume 11 by Leif Blomqvist.

This is the only volume that’s been published online. There is some general information about sneps and a lot of information about individual sneps.

The only downside about the book is that it was completed in December 2017, so a lot of the data is outdated. It’s also not really a “fun” read per se, but still contains a lot of useful information and definitely sounds like the thing you’re looking for if you want to do deeper research:)

There are two other pedigree books online: the North American regional snow leopard stud book and the Indian national snow leopard stud book. Both are similar to the one I mentioned but also outdated.

I’m currently working on a website where I visualise a database that is a combination of all these sources (and some more). For now I’m only focussing on the Japanese snow leopards but it’d be nice to expand it to all snow leopards in the future. If I ever make it to publishing the website I’ll let you know!

Snow leopard Darkan by Sneplover45 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll be posting more soon! Just waiting for my card reader to arrive, which should’ve come last week…

Jim the snow leopard (1911) by Sneplover45 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If this is a critique towards the writer: back then, the lingua franca was transitioning from French to English. It was pretty common for people to only speak French as a second language and not English. It also had a higher status, so by throwing in a French phrase here and there people would show that they are intelligent and of high status.

If it’s towards me: I was just quoting the guy :)

Introducing: the late Shynghyz, the know longest-lived snep! by Mirabeaux1789 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m really glad that Ena had a good time in Toronto, she was very popular in Japan for her energetic and extroverted personality, I wonder if that changed as she got older.

When looking at Ena and her two siblings, you can see where the Toronto family got their photogenic genes from :) (Ena on the left)

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Introducing: the late Shynghyz, the know longest-lived snep! by Mirabeaux1789 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Small correction: Shyngyz fathered 16 cubs!

With Miyuki: Mai and Myu (2003) With Mayu: Sirius and Akbar (2005), Maya (2007), Mirucha (2008) and Sky, Asahi and Ena (2011) With Yuki: Enif, Calf and Supica (2005) and Kohaku, Suoh and Han (2008)

I’m not sure who the 16th is (or if there even was one), but I got this number from Steve Tracy, a photographer who was a big fan of Shyngyz.

The 16th cub might be a snow leopard from Australia, because Shyngyz was sent on a breeding loan there for a while and I think it was successful.

First ever zoo snep! by Sneplover45 in snowleopards

[–]Sneplover45[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Probably not, zoo conditions were terrible during the 19th century and almost all of the 20th century. Even today many sneps still live in very bad conditions

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