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Le léopard (Panthera pardus) ou panthère est une espèce de félins de la sous-famille des panthérinés. Ce félin présente un pelage fauve tacheté de rosettes ; une forme mélanique existe également. Excellent grimpeur et sauteur, le léopard a la particularité de hisser ses proies à la fourche d'un arbre pour les mettre hors de portée des autres prédateurs.
Félin solitaire et opportuniste, le léopard est largement distribué en Afrique et en Asie du Sud-Est sur de nombreux types d'habitats. La taille de la population est toutefois considérée comme en baisse par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature, qui classe l'espèce comme quasi-menacée. Cinq sous-espèces sont considérées comme en danger ou en danger critique d'extinction : le léopard d'Arabie, le léopard de l'Amour, le léopard de Java, le léopard de Ceylan et le léopard de Perse.
Le léopard a une place importante dans la culture africaine où l'animal, considéré comme le roi des animaux, est l'attribut des chefs. La société secrète Aniota peut être considérée comme l'origine de légendes sur les hommes-léopards, équivalents des loups-garous occidentaux. En Europe, le léopard est décrit pour la première fois dans les bestiaires comme un animal vil issu d'un croisement adultère entre le lion (leo) et un félin légendaire, le pard (en). Cette réputation d'animal cruel et sanguinaire perdurera au moins jusqu'au XVIe siècle. L'image du félin est souvent utilisée dans la publicité (Dulux Valentine par exemple) ou dans les arts, comme la célèbre panthère rose.
For other uses, see Leopard (disambiguation) and Leopards (disambiguation).
The black leopard is one of three animals called "panther" – the others are the black jaguar and the cougar.
Leopard
Temporal range: Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene to Recent
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. pardus
Binomial name
Panthera pardus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
9 but see text
Range of the leopard, former (red), uncertain (yellow), highly fragmented (light green), and present (dark green)
Synonyms
Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is a member of the Felidae family with a wide range in some parts of Africa and tropical Asia, from Siberia, South and West Asia to across most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because it is declining in large parts of its range due to habitat loss and fragmentation, and hunting for trade and pest control. It is regionally extinct in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait, Syrian Arab Republic, Libya and Tunisia.[1]
The leopard /ˈlɛpərd/ is the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Compared to other members of the Felidae, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but is smaller and more slightly built. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard's rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguars do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers.
The species' success in the wild is in part due to its opportunistic hunting behavior, its adaptability to habitats, its ability to run at speeds approaching 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph), its unequaled ability to climb trees even when carrying a heavy carcass,[2] and its notorious ability for stealth. The leopard consumes virtually any animal that it can hunt down and catch. Its habitat ranges from rainforest to desert terrains.
Leopard (Panthera pardus). I have worked in Kruger NP and various parts of southern Africa since 1988 and have seen a leopard only twice in the past....for seconds. We always work in wild places and seeing any given animal is complete chance. On our last day of fieldwork this year, as we were driving out of the park (on the wrong road as we missed the turn!) we came upon this guy just at dawn. He walked down the road toward us and then rubbed a tree next to our parked vehicle and then laid down 10 ft from my window and checked us out for about 5 mins. After a wink, he rose, took several steps and disappeared into the forest - I saw him for a few seconds a min later as he walked thru a patch of sunlight deep in the forest. A gift I'll remember for a good long time.
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A life-like leopard re-creation.
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Indeever and Irina getting reacquainted with each other. Hopefully, there’ll be some more snow leopard cubs on the way soon!
The Persian leopard is one of the new animals at Nordens Ark and he's so beautiful. He is far
from shy and has been sitting pretty near the fence so that everyone can see him. It was kind of a challenge for me to get some good shots of him, because I didn't want the fence to be visible in the shot. I got a bit happy when he decided to go in to his little tree house - which is a bit away from the fence.
Relaxing in the shadows in his home @ Assiniboine Park Zoo, he leaned out towards the noonday sun as I zoomed in through the fence. (please check out my folder with big cats)