Snowy Animals Facts
- Snow leopards are powerful predators and have the ability to kill prey up to three times their body weight.
- Snow leopards are amongst the most elusive of the big cats and tend to live in the mountains of Central Asia. The snow leopard is listed as endangered by the IUCN.
- Whilst the polar bear does look adorable with its white fur, they are in fact one of the most ferocious hunters on the planet and one of the largest land carnivores.
- Polar bears are the largest species of bear and the only place in the world they can be found is in in the Arctic.
- Some species of penguins spend as much as 75 per cent of their lives in the water where they hunt and only ever leave the water for breeding or molting.
- There are 17 different species of penguins the tallest of which is the Emperor Penguin.