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Snow Leopards Love Nomming On Their Fluffy Tails (12 Pics)
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Snow Leopards can’t roar like other big cats but they have the most majestic tails ever to compensate. Their tails are almost as long as they are – somewhere between 80 to 105 centimetres long! They are mainly used to help them balance, however, they can also serve as a perfect object to OM NOM NOM on!

While Snow Leopards wrap their tails around their noses to protect themselves from cold in their natural habitat (they are Snow Leopards after all), it hardly explains why they’d do that when in captivity. Maybe it’s simply genetic, or maybe they just can’t resist the fluff? Just look at those tails. SO. MUCH. FLUFF.

Snow Leopards Love Nomming On Their Fluffy Tails (12 Pics)

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Julija Televičiūtė

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans bite their nails, leopards bite their tails. Bad habits are a common thing I see.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Now can we all stop killing the snow leopards, tigers, lions. Please?

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree grace we should stop killing big cats and all wildlife I do a lot of petition to help wildlife.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a majestic and beautiful animal, it's so sad that we don't have many left, if the human keep killing them for the fashion.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like a Victorian woman picking up the hems of her skirt to avoid getting wet.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cubs nomming on tails are the most adorable. FEERCE KITTEHS! I've had the opportunity to touch snow leopard fur and it is SO SOFT. It would be awesomesauce if someone was able to come up with a synthetic equivalent.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A zookeeper I met once called it a "security blanket". In stranger news I've somehow developed a habit of doing this even though I don't have a tail. Somebody help! :P

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cute pictures but I have a feeling that this is probably stereotypical behavior caused by confinement. I have always had a love/hate relationship with zoos for just this reason.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

could this be a survival instinct? keep their tails closer to their bodies to keep it warm?

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they also chase their tail? My cats like to turn in circles to get their tails.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, even housecats like to play with their tails occasionally. But snow leopards are so awesome!

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are all stunning, but the one in the second picture is throwing some serious shade!

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No offence, but I find it somewhat unfair how some posts like this get so many likes while other posts exactly the same get none.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it's some kind of neurotic behaviour caused by captivity? Those majestic felines belong to Himalayas. Not in the cages.

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It's not cute... Poor animal ... it's a an "Abnormal Repetitive Behavior", you see a lot animal with that problem in zoo. The scientific term for repetitive behaviors in captive animals is "Abnormal Repetitive Behavior" also know as ARB. This covers all the strange-looking repetitive behaviors we can recognize in captive animals, like zoo animals. These behaviors are caused by conditions like depression, boredom and psychoses. Some zoos actually give anti-depressants or tranquillizers to control the behavior problems of some of their animals.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans bite their nails, leopards bite their tails. Bad habits are a common thing I see.

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Thank you. Now can we all stop killing the snow leopards, tigers, lions. Please?

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I agree grace we should stop killing big cats and all wildlife I do a lot of petition to help wildlife.

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Such a majestic and beautiful animal, it's so sad that we don't have many left, if the human keep killing them for the fashion.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like a Victorian woman picking up the hems of her skirt to avoid getting wet.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cubs nomming on tails are the most adorable. FEERCE KITTEHS! I've had the opportunity to touch snow leopard fur and it is SO SOFT. It would be awesomesauce if someone was able to come up with a synthetic equivalent.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A zookeeper I met once called it a "security blanket". In stranger news I've somehow developed a habit of doing this even though I don't have a tail. Somebody help! :P

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cute pictures but I have a feeling that this is probably stereotypical behavior caused by confinement. I have always had a love/hate relationship with zoos for just this reason.

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could this be a survival instinct? keep their tails closer to their bodies to keep it warm?

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they also chase their tail? My cats like to turn in circles to get their tails.

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Well, even housecats like to play with their tails occasionally. But snow leopards are so awesome!

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They are all stunning, but the one in the second picture is throwing some serious shade!

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No offence, but I find it somewhat unfair how some posts like this get so many likes while other posts exactly the same get none.

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Maybe it's some kind of neurotic behaviour caused by captivity? Those majestic felines belong to Himalayas. Not in the cages.

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It's not cute... Poor animal ... it's a an "Abnormal Repetitive Behavior", you see a lot animal with that problem in zoo. The scientific term for repetitive behaviors in captive animals is "Abnormal Repetitive Behavior" also know as ARB. This covers all the strange-looking repetitive behaviors we can recognize in captive animals, like zoo animals. These behaviors are caused by conditions like depression, boredom and psychoses. Some zoos actually give anti-depressants or tranquillizers to control the behavior problems of some of their animals.

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