Alie Ward

But yeah, how are they learning how to survive on the side of cliffs and bounce around being so cute?

Oh my God.

And I'm like,

It's that ice is not forgiving.

It can look fluffy, but it's a those it's and everything is so much steeper than you can probably possibly even fathom.

Right.

Yeah.

And while there are somewhere between three and 7,000 snow leopards left in the wild, there are over 500 in zoos.

None of those zoos are on a mountaintop at 20,000 feet.

So how do they cope?

Not just with like the lack of hunting,

the ennui of daily room service and the glare of the public eye, but also with these increasingly hot temperatures.

So I looked into this and one zookeeper reported that in the summer, the snow leopards are given access to AC, shade, pools, and misters, kind of like if you lived in Florida.

Well, a few people, Janelle Essman, Brain again, Quincy Robichaux and Rachel May.

Quincy and Rachel wanted to know just why are they so cute?

And I think we know that.

But Janelle and Brain wanted to know, are they as soft and floofy as they look?

Snow leopards are also called ghost cats.

So put that in your crossword and smoke it.

What color are their eyes?