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snow leopard / Schneeleopard / L'once (Panthera uncia), aussi appelée irbis, panthère des neiges ou léopard des neiges / Panthera uncia
Pictures from my book 'Centurio the little snow leopard'
This guy lives at a animal sanctuary and is unable to go back to the bush. It was difficult to take this photograph as he was behind fencing.
Since posting this photograph, I have heard that this lovely animal had to be put to sleep. He decided to annoy the lions in their enclosure by pawing at the fencing. One of the lions swiped at him through the fence caught the leopards paw and ripped his front leg off. The sanctuary owner found him the following morning in agony and had no option but to put him to sleep.
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Next leopard picture taken in the Raubtierpark Subingen. They aren't so easy to photograph, but it's still not too bad like this! :)
These leopards are rare, with only 6,000 left in the wild according to Nat Geo. They live in the central Asian mountains. I was very fortunate to capture this shot of such a beautiful creature at the Bronx Zoo.
This is similar to an earlier photo I uploaded, but with a different composition, with the radiating branches behind the leopard providing an interesting backdrop.
Maasai Mara, Kenya
Better viewed large on black / Ver en grande con fondo negro
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Leyland Leopard PSU3 / 3R - Plaxton Panorama C45F
New to this Operator during January-1965.
Newark garage yard , Nottinghamshire .
Sunday 17th-May-1970 .
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.
Amur leopard at Colchester Zoo
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