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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.
The Amur Leopard or Far Eastern Leopard is one of the eight subspecies of leopard. It is only found in the Russian Far East and North East China and there are fewer than 70 individuals left in the wild. This makes it one of the world’s most endangered big cats.
Similar to other leopards, the Amur leopard can run at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour. This incredible animal has been reported to leap more than 19 feet horizontally and up to 10 feet vertically.
This shot was taken on a night shoot with off camera flash remote triggers, and a spot light so we could focus on the leopard. The leopard was in an enclosure and to get him up the tree our guide would hurl a piece of meat attached to some string over a branch. It was a hazardous affair, and you wouldn't believe the speed and agility of the leopard as he raced straight up the tree trunk. While we were shooting we heard a blood curdling scream about 200 metres behind us, as a warthog met its maker - apparently at the paws of a wild leopard!
The second shot was taken earlier that day when the meat ending up hanging about 12 feet off the ground and the leopard fancied his chances of catching it with a flying leap. I reckon he had as much fun as we did - and a good workout to boot!
Went to Marwell Zoo today and caught the leopard in a really convenient postition on a log for photos.
Being a bit lazy and obviously tired he decided to do a nice big yawn whilst I took my photo.
I know my photoshopping skills are a little rusty here but it was getting late and I wanted to go to bed.
Catching up, been away for 4 Weeks. This was taken in the Mashatu game reserve in Botswana it stopped for a rest after we had been tracking it for an hour
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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Taken at Sabi Sands Game Reserve, Kruger National Park, South Africa. This young, female Leopard was resting on a termite mountain.
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Eat some deer, climb a tall tree and Peace out under the warmth of the winter sun!
That's how a Leopard likes to spend a weekend :)
Am really glad that one Leopard gave me so many different shots in the course of an hour.
A sighting of this quality is quite rare!
Léopard des neiges (aussi appelé once ou panthère des neiges, panthera uncia).
Zoo d'Amnéville, près de Metz, Moselle, France.
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