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Snow Leopards

Common Name: Snow Leopard
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata)
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Pantherinae Uncia
Species: uncia
Misc.: This species, like the clouded leopard, is one of those that is somewhere between the small cats and the great cats in that it can’t purr like the small cats and it can’t roar like the true great cats. It makes a happy sound similar to the tiger's chuffing.

Its greatest threats are the hunting of its main prey species in the mountains, and the poisoning of other of its prey species, leaving the snow leopard with out a means of sustaining itself. There is also a demand now for snow leopard bones in traditional Chinese medicine as a substitute for tiger bones. Unfortunately, there is still a demand for fur coats from snow leopard skins in some countries, but luckily that has greatly diminished. At one time here in the US, a coat from a snow leopard...

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Title: Endangered Species
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Approximate pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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1. Endangered Species Act
   

   Endangered Species Act. ... To help protect threatened species, then-president, Richard
   Nixon, signed into law the Endangered Species Act in 1973. ...

2. Endangered Species
   

   Endangered Species. ... In 1973 the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed. Its purpose
   is to protect species and the ecosystems which they depend on. ...

3. Endangered Species
   

   Endangered Species. ... In 2002, nineteen animals and six plants were on the list of
   endangered species in New York State (Kurpis “In Your State”). ...

4. Endangered Species Act
   

   Endangered species Act. ... People are getting laid off there jobs and millions of our
   tax dollars are being spent on the Endangered Species Act (ESA)all the time. ...

5. Protection Of Endangered Species
   

   Protection Of Endangered Species. ... For this reason endangered species deserve
   more protection than the current regulations provide. ...