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A different shot of the same Leopard as posted yesterday.
The leopard is very adaptable and can live in many different places across the globe. Leopards are found in sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, southwestern and eastern Turkey, in the Sinai/Judean Desert of Southwest Asia, the Himalayan foothills, India, Russia, China and the islands of Java and Sri Lanka, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These large cats can live in almost any type of habitat, including rainforests, deserts, woodlands, grassland savannas, forests, mountain habitats, coastal scrubs, shrub lands and swampy areas. In fact, leopards live in more places than any other large cat.
We had been hoping to spot this female leopard for a few days. She had been seen recently at her regular Kopje haunt the day of our arrival moving her two new born cubs around. It took 3 days of regular visits to get a glimpse of her. On our final morning game drive we found her in a tree with a freshly killed wildebeest calf. We watched her for about 25 minutes moving the carcass further and further up into the tree.
Namiri Plains is located an hour and a half's drive due east from the game-rich core of the Serengeti – Seronera. The camp opened in July 2014 in an area that for more than 20 years had been closed to the public. Previously this region had exclusively been used for cheetah conservation and the number of big cats found here, especially lion prides and cheetahs, is astonishing.
Snow leopard species are endangered species .. The snow leopard rarely meets humans, lives in the caves of the mountains and can kill a prey three times its size .. There are between 600 and 700 in zoos
... But not one from the city's famous zoo.
Back in the mid 1980s on a day trip to Cheshire's county town, and when the latter had its own municipal buses, I spent a few hours wandering about camera in hand. Amongst the 'catch' was this this rather severe looking Northern Counties bodied Leyland Leopard saloon, NMB 71P. Chester's next single deckers, again high floor, would have Dominant 'bus' bodies by Duple.
Sadly the municipal fleet is no more and certainly began to struggle badly following the implementing of the 1985 Transport Act which was (amongst other things) designed to knobble council run bus services.
This is one of the snow leopards at the zoo at Karlsruhe, Germany. I think it's the male. When I arrived he was just about to leave the front area of the enclosure. I was lucky, though, as before he disappeared out of sight he turned around once again and I managed to take this photo.
The capture was taken through glass.
The Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), or Iranian leopard is one of the subspecies of leopards that's native to western Asia. The Persian leopard is endangered throughout its distribution area in the Middle East. The Persian Leopard is said to be the largest of all the subspecies of leopards in the world. It thrives in Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and northwestern Afghanistan. Habitat varies from mountain steppe to grasslands, or anywhere having a reasonable amount of cover and a supply of prey.
The leopard sat down at this vegetation about 45-50 feet away, and gave us several nice poses.
Each pose is unique and interesting in its own way, and I decided to upload several of these.
Maasai Mara, Kenya
Image taken in Botswana in the Okavango Delta.
Once again, this is the only leopard I saw on this African trip. We saw the leopard sleeping about eight pm, just before we finished the game drive. It was just past sundown, and I needed to use a flash to get a relatively clear image.
I have been on four African trips now, and still have yet to see a leopard awake. These trips are about ten days long, and they are not inexpensive especially if you are coming from the United States. The cost per trip plus airfair is about ten thousand to twelve thousand dollars each. Not to mention flying close to seventeen hours, one way.
I now have two African trips for 2015 and after that, I think I will have to end all of my foreign traveling. I will definitely miss them.