To all my Flickr friends. Going to lay low for two week, Take care and thank you for your friendship.

Kruger National Park.

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Have been neglecting my treasured leopards recently, time for some leopard love. This stunning gorgeous girl was having a rest on top of an ant hill on the plains of Sabi Sands , South Africa. She was giving us such an intense look and I found her eyes mesmerising - from a distance with a telephoto lens of course!

Happy weekend everyone, when it arrives in your part of the world. Highs of 24c and sunny here, perfect ☀️

Leopards show a great diversity in coat colour and rosettes patterns. In general, the coat colour varies from pale yellow to deep gold or tawny, and is patterned with black rosettes.

Tanzania, Serengeti National Park

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Kreative Animals - February 2023 Contest - Kreative People

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Kruger National Park South Africa.

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Leopard, Mashatu, Botswana.

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Vischer Ferry Nature and Historic Preserve

Rexford, NY

Zoo de Barben (13)

These little creatures are fascinating. This one is well camouflaged on this path as he makes his way after a passing rain shower. I think they are beautiful!

Kruger National Park.

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Snow Leopard, Dublin Zoo, Ireland

Kruger National Park.

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Kruger National Park.

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Leopard.

Kruger National Park

Photographed in Lion Sands Game Reserve, South Africa.

Le léopard, ou panthère, est un animal de la famille des félins. Son pelage est jaune et couvert de taches en rosettes (ocelles) noires. Certains léopards, plus souvent nommés panthères noires, ont une robe très foncée où l’on distingue mal les ocelles bien que présentes. Il s’agit là d’une anomalie génétique entraînant un surplus de mélanine appelé le mélanisme.

Le léopard a une espérance de vie de l’ordre de 12 ans en liberté, alors que certains peuvent atteindre l’âge honorable de 20 ans en captivité. Sa taille varie entre 1,50 et 2,50 m de longueur et de 60 à 70 cm au garrot. Il pèse entre 50 et 80 kg.

Le cri du léopard est le feulement, le miaulement et le rugissement. On dit qu'il feule, miaule et rugit.

Il n’y a pas de période de reproduction fixe. Lorsque la femelle est prête à s’accoupler, elle émet une urine caractéristique que les mâles reconnaissent immédiatement. Il arrive souvent qu’une même femelle se retrouve avec plusieurs prétendants. Ceux-ci doivent alors se battre pour conquérir la future compagne, car seul le vainqueur aura le privilège de s’accoupler. Une fois le vainqueur désigné, le couple restera ensemble durant 6 à 7 jours, tant que la femelle sera en chaleur. Puis le mâle retournera sur son territoire et laissera la femelle élever seule ses petits.

La gestation dure environ 3 mois et demi. La femelle met au monde une portée de 1 à 6 petits. À la naissance, les petits sont aveugles et pèsent environ 500 g. Au bout d’un an, les jeunes quittent leur mère pour entamer une vie de solitaire.

Kruger National Park.

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Tierpark Hellabrunn München. China Leopard Julius hat im Juni 2016 München verlassen und ist nach Hannover gezogen.

With as few as 45 adults remaining in the wild, the Amur leopard is probably the rarest and most critically endangered big cat in the world. Habitat destruction, degradation and poaching of Amur leopards and their prey are persistent threats. Hunted largely for its beautiful, spotted fur, the loss of each Amur leopard puts the species at greater risk of extinction.

The Amur leopard is classified as Critically Endangered since 1996 by IUCN. Data published by the World Wildlife Fund indicates that there are roughly 50 adult Amur leopards in the wild today.

The Amur leopard is a leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of southeastern Russia and the Jilin Province of northeast China. They live for 10-15 years, and in captivity up to 20 years. The Amur leopard is also known as the Far East leopard, the Manchurian leopard or the Korean leopard.

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Leopard Cat, Borneo, Malaysia.

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Beautiful eyes of a tiny shrimp.

Commonly known as the Leopard Crinoid Shrimp. White with irregular patches over the body, even on legs and claws.(reeflex.net)

Mabini, South Luzon, Philippines

Leopards are graceful and powerful cats. (Skukuza, Kruger National Park)

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Zoo München Hellabrunn

Patundas Meadows / Patundas Trek is situated in Ghulkin, Gojal Valley, Upper Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan.

It is also called 'Table of Mountains' because you can view many high mountains above 7000m, the altitude of patundas is 4300m above sea level. Patundas has amazing biodiversity, some of the animals found are Snow leopard, Red Fox, and Himalayan Ibex. You'll have to live in a tent, and cook on fire .Also you have to cross Passu Glacier. Once you get to the top the Patundas Meadows offers 360-degree panoramic views of towering 7,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram range of Pakistan. Major Visible PeaksDastagil Sar: 7,885 meters (25,869 ft)Shispare (Shishper): 7,619 meters (24,997 ft)Batura Peak: 7,500 meters (24,606 ft)Rakaposhi: 7,788 meters (25,551 ft)Momhil Sar: 7,342 meters (24,088 ft)Passu Peak: 7,284 meters (23,900 ft)Passu I & II and the Passu Cones . A big thank you to everyone who took time to comment and a look at my photo. Much appreciated! 500px.com/p/YiannisPavlis?view=photos

This image was captured in the wild in the Kgalagadi.

(You might have noticed, this is the nth upload of this same leopard, but then again, she gave me so much pleasure and time to capture images of her!)

Another photo of the beautiful female leopard that ran alongside the road as we were driving along. We stopped the car and she came up beside the car and hid behind a bush and began watching some Impala on the opposite side. They spotted her and she decided to just sit and wait. There were no other cars around for quite a while, so a wonderful sighting where we had her to ourselves for photos.

Khwai Private Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana

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Leopard in the Jungle World exhibit at the Bronx Zoo

Mala Mala Game Reserve

South Africa

Near Kruger National Park

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Male leopard walking by a slightly inclined dirt road in the reserve directly in front of our jeep located at the bottom. He traveled down the road for quite a distance before swerving off into the bush. I was quite fortunate to see this male because our jeep was the only one present during the encounter.

Luipaard in rust - Namibië

Too close.

This is another view of the first leopard we saw in Motswari.

We had an excellant day in the park today - 4 leopard sightings.I will have to add photos later.

Leopard Seals are one of the most formidable predators in Antarctica though they don't look quite so scary when they are resting on the ice. Though it is probably sleeping off a feast of penguins. Their favourite food is penguins but they also eat other seals, squid, and even tiny krill. They have been known to attack humans, including Shackleton's team, though there has only been one recorded fatality. They are not particularly common and one of my friends worked for a year in Antarctica and never saw one. I liked the way that this one was looking straight at me with knowing smile.

Safely at rest after dining on impala.

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One early rainy morning we spotted this young male leopard sitting out near the road not far from camp! He was sitting in some bushes and just sat there and stared at us! I love this capture with his tongue out and I think it shows his youth! This photo was taken in the Olare motorogi conservancy in Kenya!

Namibia