The diet of a Snow leopard varies across snow leopard range
. In the Himalayas they eat mostly blue sheep, which are also known as bharal (Pseudois nayaur).
In the Karakorum (Pakistan), Tian Shan (China, Kyrgyzstan and
Kazakhstan) and Altai (Russia and Mongolia) Mountains, their main prey is
ibex, a wild goat (Capra siberica) and wild argali sheep (Ovis ammon).
Across their range snow leopards also take small prey including marmots
and hares, and they hunt larger birds like snow Roosters and chukor. Snow
leopards are opportunistic hunters, and they will attack livestock that are in
their range.
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They go down in elevation for the winter. They go back up for the summer, as high as 20 thousand feet.