Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia)
The snow leopard is a consumer and a apex predator since nothing eats them, snow leopards are consumers because they don't make their own energy like plants do but, rely on other animals to get their energy from. Their diet consists of blue sheep of Tibet and the Himalayas and the mountain ibex who also found among these areas. They also eat smaller animals as well like marmots, hares, and game birds. They also eat a considerably amount of grass and twigs as well. Snow leopards diets does mostly consist of meat because not many plants can grow in such a hash environment in which the snow leopard lives. Since, nothing eats a snow leopard and they don't solely eat plants for energy they are consumers in the animal kingdom. The snow leopard is eukaryote because it is a animal and has complex systems going on in its body. Seeing as most prokarytic beings are bacteria and are simple organisms. Snow leopards don't fit into that category because they are mammals and all mammals are complex in their setup.
Snow Leopards cannot make their own food so they hunt other animals like the blue sheep and ibex it takes them 3 to 4 days to eat their food after they have caught it. They use respiration to make its energy, the snow leopard like other mammals rely on their diaphragm which is found under the lungs. The equation is Glucose+Oxygen------ Carbon dioxide+ Water+ Energy. All of these molecules are inorganic expect Glucose. Inside of its body the snow leopard makes milk to feed their young, makes energy, and they also keep a sustaining body heat to help protect against the cold.
Being a large cat, snow leopards have large hunting grounds but the amount of food provided for them in the wild isn't enough for all of them, so they resort to eating the locals animals. Causing angry locals to come and attack. Since many Snow leopards live outside of national parks/refugees they are extremely vulnerable to the people who wish to do them harm. But, with alternative means of income for the locals (tourism and such) they become more lenient to the animal attacks. Secondly, habitat destruction also negatively affects snow leopards by causing rapid decline in their population without a place for them to live and hunt they eventually die. Making more national refugee camps for them and keeping a close eye on them could help stop the population decline. Upsole vegetation change or woody vegetation replacing alpine grasslands will also cause at most a 30 percent population decline in the snow leopards. To help with this problem there should be discussions on landscaping-scale planning, this helps maintain the population and creates more resistance to climate change, thus restoring and increasing the populations of snow leopards but there has to large landscapes to be restored as well. Lastly, poaching is a big issue when it comes to snow leopards, governments over in Asia (where they live) are more concerned about economic development than the environment. Although there are laws against poaching the leopards they are rarely enforced due to how much it would cost to enforce them. The government should set aside a certain amount just for the protection of their animals and environment when they make budgets and hire people to go out and protect the leopard from the poachers.