Snow Leopards and Other Big Cats Lesson

Because they need to hide in the trees.

 Because it wants to hide in the snow.

​Cheetahs can run in bursts (short periods of time) at up to 115 to 130 Kilometers per hour (KPH).

The Snowshoe Hare and the Canadian Lynx.

The Lynx is found in the United States and Canada, North America.

• There are many land ecosystems: desert, deciduous forest, tundra, savanna, grasslands, etc. The Canadian lynx and snowshoe hare live in a land ecosystem called the coniferous forest.

• These ecosystems all have different climates. Scientists mainly look at temperature and precipitation for the climate of land biomes.

• Snowshoe hares have brown fur in the summers and white fur in the snowy winters in order to camouflage and evade the lynx.

• Canadian lynx have long legs and giant paws to be able to hunt hare in the snow.

• They have evolved together because snowshoe hare is 96% of the lynx's diet!