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Marwell Wildlife, Hampshire UK
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the size of the global population is estimated at as few as 4,000 adults, of which only 2,500 individuals may reproduce in the wild. The animals are gradually being pushed out of their natural habitat due to destruction, livestock grazing, their prey being hunted by humans and other conflicts with people. Some have even fallen victim to landmines in northern Afghanistan.
Marwell Wildlife are successful members of the European Breeding Programme for the species.
This is my entry for the 6. Feline category in the 52 in 2014 Group.
Still thrilled about the first leopard in the distance across the Sabie river,
we saw this one very close to the road, trying its best to ignore the excited tourists. Our day was made.
(Thanx to zoo Cologne)
Ich bin mir der Problematik und Ambivalenz der sehr verbreiteten und beliebten Zoo-Tier-Portraits, die so tun, also würde das dargestellte Mitgeschöpf ohne Mauern und Zäune gemütlich, frei und freiwillig da posieren, wo wir es vorfinden und ablichten, bewusst - trage gelegentlich aber selber ein solches bei.
Wir beNUTZen das Tier in gewisser Weise, was wir bei Millionen anderer, Nicht-Zoo-Tiere, die wir unter der Kategorie "NUTZtiere" zusammenfassen, auch und noch ganz anders tun, und was nicht grundsätzlich verwerflich ist - aber ambivalent.
I feel like one of the super lucky ones to have had the opportunity to visit Africa on more than one occasion, and I hope to go back. Going back and starting to keyword all the memories come flooding back, one of the great things about photography. This leopard stood on this branch, took a nice yawn before taking this position. I like this shot the best because of its eyes.
Mara North Conservancy, Kenya
We found this magnificent animal resting peacefully in the shade. He had a full belly so he was very relaxed and it didn't look as though he was going to move any time soon. As we watched, a warthog came into view and started walking directly towards the leopard. It obviously hadn't noticed the cat was there - either that or it was extremely stupid! The leopard started to pay a bit of interest but still just lay there as the warthog got closer and closer. The hog was snuffling around doing warthoggy things, totally oblivious of the danger. Eventually the leopard rose to its feet and started stalking the hog, which by now was only about twenty feet away. It was all a bit half-hearted though and eventually the leopard decided it was just too much trouble and returned to its resting place and flopped down again. The warthog wandered off, and had no idea how close it had come to being a leopard's lunch!
his whiskers are better looking than most of us.
This is no pussy cat He is more than capable of tearing us apart.
Both the leopard and jaguar look similar in appearance.
The leopard is the smaller of the 2 and its rosette patterns do not have dots inside them as shown above.
@melaka zoo
The most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores, the leopard is also the shrewdest. Pound for pound, it is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself.
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia or Uncia uncia), sometimes known as "ounce," is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia. The classification of this species has been subject to change and its exact taxonomic position will not be resolved until further studies are conducted.
It cannot roar, despite possessing an incomplete ossification of the hyoid bone. The presence of this ossification was previously thought to be essential for allowing the big cats to roar. However, new studies show that the ability to roar is due to other morphological features, especially of the larynx, which are absent in the snow leopard.
The snow leopard's range in central and south Asia is rugged mountainous regions of approximately 1,230,000 square kilometers, which extends through 12 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
The geographic distribution from the Hindukush in eastern Afghanistan and the Syr Darya through the mountains of Pamir Mountains, Tian Shan, Karakorum, Kashmir, Kunlun, and the Himalaya to southern Siberia, where the range covers the Russian Altai mountains, Sajan, Tannu-Ola mountains and the mountains to the west of Lake Baikal. In Mongolia it is found in the Mongolian and Gobi Altai and the Khangai Mountains. In Tibet it is found up to the Altyn-Tagh in the North
Sabu, the young male snow leopard at Roger Williams Zoo in Providence, RI. As part of the zoo's Super Bowl party, Sabu got boxes with team logos and scent enrichment. He enjoyed the Seahawks box so much he got blue cornstarch on his face.
Greenville Zoo, Greenville, SC. HDR using 3 bracketed shots. Blurred vignette applied in Photoshop using Color Efex Pro 3.
leopards are typically pretty shy. we were very fortunate to find this older make resting on a termite mound out in the open (in nice soft light no less).
masai mara, kenya
This beautiful big cat is a Sri Lankan Leopard and was taken at a zoo called Banham Zoo (UK)... It was a rather moody day which proved a challenge when capturing. Page: www.facebook.com/LiamGriggsPhotography</a
Explored 218 - 2012-04-08
During the last trip to Masai Mara, I managed to see and photograph Olive the Leopard.
Olive is the daughter of Bella, famous from Big Cat Diaries on BBC.
This was taken after she had had a fight with her brother over a left over meal on top of a tree. After squabbling over it each one went their seperate ways with a portion of the left overs. She was sitting below the same tree hidden in some long grass thus making it a very difficult shot.