A rare brown-yellow snow leopard found in the source of the Yangtze River. Expert: non-snow leopard and golden leopard "combination"

　　China News Agency, Xining, December 15 (Reporter Zhang Tianfu) Recently, in the Sanjiangyuan National Park, snow leopards and leopards are often "captured" by human lenses.

However, a rare snow leopard with a fur color close to that of a leopard appeared in the Yangtze River Source Park of the Sanjiangyuan National Park.

　　According to Gata, Director of the Ecological Environment and Natural Resources Administration of the Qumalai Management Office of the Yangtze Source Park of the Three Rivers Source National Park, on the 15th, Luo Songzhasi, a snow leopard monitor from Cuochi Village, Qumahe Township, Qumalai County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province Recently, while patrolling the mountains in the first gorge of the Yangtze River-the Miasma, I found a unique animal, both like a snow leopard and a leopard, so I took the picture with a camera.

　　A reporter from China News Agency saw that the animal photographed by Luo Song Tashi lying on the hillside, resembling a snow leopard, but its fur color is similar to that of a leopard, that is, brownish-yellow with spots and rings.

　　Lian Xinming, an associate researcher at the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that snow leopards usually seen are off-white or black and white, but they are not without other colors, but are relatively rare. The snow leopards in the above photos have a light gray background with There is brownish yellow.

　　Lian Xinming also denied that the snow leopard was born from the "combination" of snow leopards and leopards.

He said that ordinary snow leopards live in an environment such as limestone, which is gray and white. The brown-yellow snow leopard is not easy to hide in the gray and white environment.

　　Lian Xinming said that scientific experts often use infrared cameras to investigate the distribution and population of snow leopards, or use DNA to study genetic diversity, but there are few studies on fur color.

　　Gata said that the Qumalai Management Office of the Yangtze River Source Park of the Three Rivers Source National Park has Tibetan antelopes, wild yaks, white-lipped deer, horse musk deer, snow leopards and other wild animals. It is a veritable "animal kingdom". To survive, herders have gradually increased their protection of wild animals. Similar to these new topics, it is worth further research and exploration." (End)