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Ever wary, this leopard pauses for a drink while guarding her cub and her treed kill from pestering hyaenas. I looked up the GPS location in the Lightroom Map module and this happens to be in an area called "Leopard Gorge" (Maasai Mara, Kenya). How appropriate. From my 2012 Kenya safari.
After watching this leopard in a dark thicket of trees and bushes, she eventually emerged on to the grassland for a clean and a lie down before disappearing off into the jungle.
Reptons Coaches of Little Bookham began with a single Bedford YRT / Duple Dominant coach back in 1987. Since then they have had around 55 vehicles ranging from small minibuses, single deck buses up to executive tri-axle coaches.
The current fleet consists of 6 coaches, 4 buses and a couple of heritage coaches undergoing restoration.
On my visit to their depot in late October 2020 I came across Volvo B8R / Plaxton Leopard C53FT REP694, new in 2019.
One of my favourite safari pictures of a quite amazing female leopard whom we were privileged to be with for half an hour or so
Mother and cubs. Mother walked close around the front of our vehicle and two cubs went under the vehicle to meet her on the other side..
The scientific name of the snow leopard is Uncia uncia, and is the state animal of Himachal Pradesh, a north Indian state in the western Himalayas. The Snow leopard is also the National Heritage Animal of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Snow leopards are slightly smaller than the other big cats. They are stocky cats with relatively short legs, they have a short body but the tail is quite long. Their fur is long and think and is a smoky gray with tan patches.They have dark grey to black open rosettes with small spots on their heads and larger spots on their legs and tails. Their eyes are pale green or grey in color. Their paws are wide, to distribute their weight for walking on snow, and have fur on their undersides to increase their grip on steep and unstable surfaces, which is important in the rocky terrain they inhabit. -Wikipedia
The snow leopard cannot roar, but it's vocalizations include hissing, chuffing, mews, growls, and wailing.
Which I heard once at the SD Zoo when mate of the snow leopard died, you could hear her wailing. It was the saddest thing I ever heard.
In 1972, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) placed the snow leopard on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered; the same threat category was applied in the assessment conducted in 2008. -Endangered
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We were heading back to camp when we met this young leopard on the road. He used our car to hide . The final part was a bit clumsy,so the impala could escape.
The Amur leopard is considered to be one of the most critically endangered big cats in the world, with roughly 30-40 individuals remaining in the wild. Habitat loss and hunting (for trophies and use in traditional medicines) are the biggest threats to Amur leopards in the wild.
The Amur leopard has been a protected species in Russia since 1956, but poaching is still a problem. Conservation efforts in the wild for these animals include anti-poaching patrols, customs control, fighting forest fires, environmental education programmes and working closely with local communities.
Information sourced from Marwell Zoo.