Amur Leopard

Ex Barton leopard KAU 566V last days at kirton in lindsey scrapyard.

Stupid fence!

And for the record, I understand the need for it... but it did mess up a great photo-op.

I pushed the f/ to 2.8 to minimize it.

Snow Leopard.

Toronto Zoo.

These are amazing animals, and one of the highlights of our visit.

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So just 2 meters above our head, this beautiful leopard rested for a while.

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Male Leopard in tree

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Snow leopard at Marwell zoo. Taken during one of their fantastic twilight photo experiences - highly recommended!

We were privileged and thrilled to get so close to this leopard, who was well camouflaged in a tree close to a herd of impala.

Four GMN Leopards and an Atlantean stand on 'Death row' at the rear of Bolton depot.

Leopard shark in the Kelp Forest at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

(c) Dave Rolfe

Leopard at Henry Doorley

One of the baby clouded leopards at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, FL

Leopard (Panthera pardus)

This was an old leopard. It had been tame, but at about 4 years old leopards' territorial instincts kick in. It is cruel to game to put them in with him, so they feed him the cheapest meat possible; Donkey. Leopards are incredibly powerful and can climb trees due to the ability to lock their ankles.

Taken in Namibia

Leopard, Ngala game reserve, South Africa

"Snow Leopard" "Cat Survival Trust"

Leopard, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Panthera pardus

Amur leopards

Yala National Park - Sri Lanka

Goda Kalapuwa road. 8.30am

Canon EOS-5D Mark II, Canon 500mm f4L IS

Guy had just had a fight, probably half hour before. We caught him on the thalgasmankada road at about 7.30am, he moved towards the gonalehabba kalapuwa where I took this sequence. Spent the entire day marking his territory, in the evening we came across him heading towards the Yala crossing, again marking his territory.

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Tanda Tula, Timbavati, South Africa

Clouded leopards are found throughout South-East Asia from southern China and central Nepal through to Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. They have also been found in the Himalayan foothills as high as 3000 m in altitude.

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'Davidoff' - Male Amur Leopard @ Twycross Zoo

Taken at Kwetsani Camp, Botswana.

Out of the tree now, she strikes one more pose for the cameras, then heads off through the bush.

Photo of an 11 x 14 watercolor painting by Sharon Farber. Reference photo by Scotch Macaskill. To see more of my artwork go to www.paintedpath.com.

The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), also known as the Far Eastern Manchurian leopard, is a wild predator native to Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.

This leopard subspecies home is the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests. It is one of the rarest big cats in the world with an estimated 30 to 45 individuals remaining in the wild.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has deemed the Amur leopard critically endangered, meaning that it is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

(source: Wikipedia)

Fairly happy with this given the leopard was walking towards me and the lighting was not the best at that time of the afternoon. This enclosure also causes problems with focus if you are at an angle to the glass as the thickness of the window throws out the focus a little.

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