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The Amur tigers at the Bronx Zoo were right at home in the snowstorm that hit New York City last week. Miss Sasha and her three cubs pounced through the snowdrifts, as you can see in the video above.

As the northernmost sub-species of tiger, Amurs (a.k.a. Siberian tigers) are well adapted to winter conditions. In the wild, around 350 Amur tigers inhabit the boreal and temperate mixed forests in the southern Russian Far East and Northeast China—a fraction of the historical population living in a fraction of its historical range.

The to the cat’s survival are poaching, habitat loss, and illegal hunting of ungulates (their main prey), according to the . The group has found that 20-30 of the cats are poached in the Russian Far East each year, accounting for 75-85% of all Amur tiger deaths.