Snow leopard

A snow leopard crosses a snowfield in the Spiti region of the Indian Himalaya, its long tail curled up behind it. That bushy tail can reach about a meter, close to the length of the rest of the body. White-gray to gray-brown fur with dark spots suits the rock and snow it lives among, typically between 3,000 and 5,000 meters across the high mountains of 12 Central Asian countries. Unlike the other big cats in its genus, it cannot roar.