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Magnificent Amur leopard taken at Twycross zoo earlier today. I've lost count of the number of visits I have made in order to see this leopard up and about....finally today it paid off.
Canon 1D Mk3 with Sigma 150-500mm APO HSM.
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.
Amur Leopard at Colchester Zoo
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Der Leopard ist eine Art aus der Familie der Katzen, die in Afrika und Asien verbreitet ist. Darüber hinaus kommt sie auch im Kaukasus und somit am äußersten Rande Europas vor. Der Leopard ist nach Tiger, Löwe und Jaguar die viertgrößte Großkatze.
The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar.
Leopards may sometimes be confused with two other large spotted cats, the cheetah, with which it may co-exist in Africa, and the jaguar, a neotropical species that it does not naturally co-exist with. However, the patterns of spots in each are different: the cheetah has simple black spots, evenly spread; the jaguar has small spots inside the polygonal rosettes; while the leopard normally has rounder, smaller rosettes than those of the jaguar. The cheetah has longer legs and a thinner build that makes it look more streamlined and taller but less powerfully built than the leopard. The jaguar is more similar in build to the leopard but is generally larger in size and has a more muscular, bulky appearance.