To see a wild snow leopard in person would be a very rare experience, although some people have done it. Many wild snow leopards have been captured in the wild and put into a zoo. Snow leopards have been successfully bread, so hopefully the snow leopards status will rise from endangered.

The snow leopard has a whitish/gray coat with small dark colored rosettes and broken-spot markings on it's back. These rosettes are spaced farther apart than those of most leopards and cats. The leopard's belly, chest, and chin is usually a whiter color then the rest of its fur and the fur is long and woolly. The snow leopard only molts two times a year, in the summer and winter. This is the reason their fur is the way it is.

The cat's eyes are grayish with brown and yellow tints.

An average snow leopard's body length ranges from 900 to 1350 millimeters long and they usually weigh about 50 kilograms.

Picture curtousy of community.webshots.com Snow leopard on rock

This particular species of leopard had an average life span of 15 to 18 years.