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V1M very kindly organised for me to go to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent for a Photographers on Safari day. This meant access inside the normal outer barriers that visitors are normally restricted behind, and enabled me to get right up against the inner enclosure, with camera lens as close as could be to the main enclosure. As well as our photographic instructor - John Wright - on hand to advise on technique, we also one of the cats' keepers, Becky, to tempt the animals out of hiding and into more photogenic positions with some tasty bits of meat.
As some of you will know I am a bit of a fan of animals and big cats in particular so I was rather in my element! Not only did I get some rather lovely photos of some gorgeous animals, but just being at such close quarters with them for the whole day was wonderful in itself.
A Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) photographed at Marwell Zoo in March 2015.
Snow Leopards are native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia, these beautiful big cats are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Snow Leopards
Brookfield Zoo
October 20, 2013
It's been 4 weeks since I photographed Brookfield Zoo's Snow Leopard cub, Everest. He has grown quite a bit, and boy does he like to play! He keeps his mom, Sarani, very busy! It is so fun to watch them interact with one another.
The Wallingford male kept eyeballing the Makwela female all day, waiting for her to show if she's ready to mate
LEOPARD or PANTHER [Panthera Pardus]: The sleek body and color that perfectly blends with its surrounding make the leopard probably the most successful modern predator. In India, it is the third largest cat whose range occurs almost through the entire country. It is also known as the panther and is often confused with the (now extinct) cheetah. The only other similar animal is the jaguar found in South America.
These races occur in India. They have a considerable degree of color variation. Animals from the desert zone are paler, while in high rainfall areas of the Western Ghats and eastern India, black leopard are not uncommon. The most successful and adaptive among the large cats, the leopard live in all types of habitats from open country to thick forest. Leopard will usually avoid confrontations with a tiger or a lion as the latter are bigger and stronger. In addition, have different habits and prey preferences even if both species shared the same area.
Love the sleek and streamlined lines of the Arabian Leopard! A nice view, pity about the man made structrues in the background! Oh well! The Arabian leopard was tentatively affirmed as a distinct subspecies by genetic analysis from a single captive leopard from Israel of south Arabian origin, which appeared most closely related to the African leopard. (Al Ain, UAE, Dec. 2012)