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An 80 kg dominant male leopard. Notice his chewed right ear from scrapes over his 12 odd years.
Londolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
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.
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Looking back through all my safari shots over the past few years I realised how fortunate we’ve been in seeing and photographing leopards. Many people will go on safari and not see one, or will only get a brief glimpse. But Tris and I have both seen and photographed them on every safari we’ve been on. Whilst in Zambia last year we had numerous sightings every day, our trips to various destinations in Tanzania (Selous, Ruaha & Katavi) and to Kenya have often ended up with just a single sighting but, without fail, we’ve been privileged to see at least one of these magnificent animals every time. This last trip was no exception and, although photographic opportunities of this particular male were brief, I came away again with a few more leopard shots to add to my collection.
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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Looks great on black (press L).
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.