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I finally got to see the snow leopards at Twycross Zoo, an animal I've wanted to see my whole life, more than any other. A terrible shame about the wire I know but making eye contact with possibly the most awesome animal on earth was quite emotional, to say the least ! Actually I'm beggining to prefer zoo pictures that actually look like they were taken in a zoo. The same with ' my ' foxes and badgers, trying to show them in the urban environment they actually live in.
I'll never forget as long as I live seeing the footage of snow leopards on the BBC's Planet Earth series for the first time, especially the incredible chase sequence, here it is on youtube ( the music is so beautiful too )......
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65T4yKmY3Bo
Makes me a bit watery eyed but then most wildlife documentaries do these days, just about every animal they film comes with horror stories of our persecution.
AND another thing....why do we see more of the presenters than the animals these days ?!?!? Less people, more animals PLEASE !!!
Snow leopards on ARKive........
A leopard staring hungrily at the children in front of me (or at that seed thing in the fence). Oklahoma City Zoo.
The World's Rarest Cat..Amur Leopard! Only 26 left in Wild, I had an out of this world experience with this beautiful female Leopard where she was kept in captivity, one of the most beautiful and most sad eyes I have ever seen. After many hours of walking back and fourth in her enclosure she produced a sound as if mourning, as if a lament to Mother Nature, it was neither roar nor grunt .. being tired she sat in front of my camera and made an eye contact..I cannot explain what I felt...there was so much helplessness in her eyes, as if she has given up and surrendered. I cannot imagine that people kill these extremely beautiful animals for their fur and let their bodies rot in the frozen forests of Russia. This drives me to do something for these animals, I can adopt her and give some funds for its conservation but the speed with which these cats are dying, I have a fear that this would be the first majestic cat to be extinct before Amur Tiger , Snow leopard and Iberian Lynx...
Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka
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This is Xizi, female Amur Leopard having a good yawn. It looks scary but she wasn't in the slightest bit agitated.
In the wild it is estimated that there are 12 female Amur Leopards left alive.
The leopard ( /ˈlɛpərd/), Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its range of distribution has decreased radically because of hunting and loss of habitat. It is now chiefly found in sub-Saharan Africa; there are also fragmented populations in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. Because of its declining range and population, it is listed as a "Near Threatened" species on the IUCN Red List.
Compared to other members of the Felidae family, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but is smaller and more slightly built. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard's rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguars do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers.
The species' success in the wild is in part due to its opportunistic hunting behavior, its adaptability to habitats, its ability to run at speeds approaching 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph), its unequaled ability to climb trees even when carrying a heavy carcass, and its notorious ability for stealth. The leopard consumes virtually any animal that it can hunt down and catch. Its habitat ranges from rainforest to desert terrains.
A leopard mother (Panthera pardus) with her sub-adult cub of about 18 months (front), on an early morning reconnaissance, Elephant Plains Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa. Photo originally posted to my blog at www.wildlife-pictures-online.com
For W Too.
Toronto Zoo's clouded leopards are named Merriweather and Fauna, and they are twin sisters.
A young leopard stares out of a tree at a fallen piece of Impala choosing the right moment to descend and retrieve it.
Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana