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Kruger National Park, South Africa

Have been neglecting my treasured leopards recently, time for some leopard love. This stunning gorgeous girl was having a rest on top of an ant hill on the plains of Sabi Sands , South Africa. She was giving us such an intense look and I found her eyes mesmerising - from a distance with a telephoto lens of course!

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Leopards show a great diversity in coat colour and rosettes patterns. In general, the coat colour varies from pale yellow to deep gold or tawny, and is patterned with black rosettes.

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Malaya the Snow Leopard strikes an iconic pose that echos an illuminated chapter heading inscribed by monks during the dark ages - from before Gutenberg invented moveable type....!

Friday night during the golden hour of sunset and the first hours of the Brookfield Zoo Holiday Lights festival, Malaya and her mate Sabu were more active than I've seen them! Here Malaya frolics with some extra something in a green bag that her caretakers gave her - is there such a thing as Leopard-Nip? Because she was pretty cranked up!

Panthera Uncia at the Brookfield Zoo.

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

I first had to follow and trace this young leopard, I think it is a female, for a considerable distance through extremely dense Mopani bush, disappearing completely from sight from time to time until she again re-appeared, stopped and made herself at home in front of a termite mound not far from the road side. It certainly was my lucky day!

Kruger National Park.

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Snow Leopard, Dublin Zoo, Ireland

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Botswana

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Kruger National Park

'Sabi Sands' Game Reserve - Bordering Kruger National Park. SA

Leopard on a tree branch in Kruger National Park - South Africa

Le léopard, ou panthère, est un animal de la famille des félins. Son pelage est jaune et couvert de taches en rosettes (ocelles) noires. Certains léopards, plus souvent nommés panthères noires, ont une robe très foncée où l’on distingue mal les ocelles bien que présentes. Il s’agit là d’une anomalie génétique entraînant un surplus de mélanine appelé le mélanisme.

Le léopard a une espérance de vie de l’ordre de 12 ans en liberté, alors que certains peuvent atteindre l’âge honorable de 20 ans en captivité. Sa taille varie entre 1,50 et 2,50 m de longueur et de 60 à 70 cm au garrot. Il pèse entre 50 et 80 kg.

Le cri du léopard est le feulement, le miaulement et le rugissement. On dit qu'il feule, miaule et rugit.

Il n’y a pas de période de reproduction fixe. Lorsque la femelle est prête à s’accoupler, elle émet une urine caractéristique que les mâles reconnaissent immédiatement. Il arrive souvent qu’une même femelle se retrouve avec plusieurs prétendants. Ceux-ci doivent alors se battre pour conquérir la future compagne, car seul le vainqueur aura le privilège de s’accoupler. Une fois le vainqueur désigné, le couple restera ensemble durant 6 à 7 jours, tant que la femelle sera en chaleur. Puis le mâle retournera sur son territoire et laissera la femelle élever seule ses petits.

La gestation dure environ 3 mois et demi. La femelle met au monde une portée de 1 à 6 petits. À la naissance, les petits sont aveugles et pèsent environ 500 g. Au bout d’un an, les jeunes quittent leur mère pour entamer une vie de solitaire.

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Masai Mara National Reserve

Kenya

East Africa

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Profile image of a female leopard emerging from the undergrowth in the Masai Mara.

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The Leopard is the most secretive and elusive big cat. Leopards are renowned for their agility. They run up to 58km/h and can leap 6m horizontally and 3m vertically.

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My first wild leopard. Seen in Wilipattu National Park, Sri Lanka

Il meraviglioso e ormai quasi estinto Colobo rosso, che vive solo a Zanzibar.

Alcune informazioni su questo splendido animale.

A differenza del leopardo, il colobo rosso (Piliocolobus kirkii) fortunatamente è scampato alla pesante riduzione dell’habitat naturale ed alla caccia senza controllo ed oggi è la specie bandiera di Zanzibar.

Il nome lo deve principalmente al colore del suo mantello, rosso appunto, attraversato da una striscia nera che fa da cornice ad un simpatico muso anch’esso nero che si alterna ad un ventre pallido. Le lunghe braccia e zampe si associano ad una lunga coda che fa da bilanciere permettendo lunghi salti tra un albero e l’altro.

Il colobo è un animale sociale che vive in gruppi formati da diversi esemplari maschi circondati da numerose femmine e cuccioli.

Il carattere mite permette la visione ravvicinata da parte dell’uomo che tuttavia deve ridurre al massimo l’impatto della sua presenza riducendo i rumori ed evitando il contatto diretto.

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foto scattata da me, Jozani Forest National park, Zanzibar

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Another photo of the beautiful female leopard that ran alongside the road as we were driving along. We stopped the car and she came up beside the car and hid behind a bush and began watching some Impala on the opposite side. They spotted her and she decided to just sit and wait. There were no other cars around for quite a while, so a wonderful sighting where we had her to ourselves for photos.

This image was captured in the wild in the Kgalagadi.

(You might have noticed, this is the nth upload of this same leopard, but then again, she gave me so much pleasure and time to capture images of her!)

Khwai Private Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana

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South Luangwa National Park

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Too close.

This is another view of the first leopard we saw in Motswari.

We had an excellant day in the park today - 4 leopard sightings.I will have to add photos later.

so lucky to be able to spend a short time with this beauty today