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Leopard

(Panthera pardus)

Okonjima,

Namibia

We headed to the Palo Alto store tonight to pick up our copy of Mac OS 10.5. Didn't want to be stuck in the mall and was hoping Jobs would do a drop-in. That didn't happen but the vibe was good and I'm installing it now.

 

FYI, both Gabriel and I showed up wearing our official Apple sweatshirts. Geek in effect!

At the Kambaku Lodge, South Africa 2017

Mara North Conservancy, Masai Mara, Kenya, Dec. 2012

The range of this species used to cover areas of China, Russia, and the Korean peninsula. However, their numbers have shrunk dramatically, and this cat is no longer found in China or Korea. In Russia as few as 14-20 adults were estimated to survive in 2007.

 

Amur leopards have been listed by the IUCN as critically endangered, meaning that the species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild

 

(information from Edinburgh zoo's website www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals/individuals/AmurLeopard.h...

Sri Lankaanse panter (Panthera pardus kotiya)

BestZOO, Best, The Netherlands

Conservation status: Endangered

Snow leopards Mum, Dad and 3 cubs from Marwell Zoo 2013

150.366: The amur leopard takes rest in the outside exhibit enclosure. It was wonderful being able to be so close to this animal while it paced around the exhibit area but was very difficult to get a decent photo due to the structure and layout.

 

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Leopard in Masai Mara, Kenya

Leopard at Linton Zoo.

 

Panthera pardus Linnaeus, 1758

Felidae

Carnivora

Sri Lankaanse panter (Panthera pardus kotiya)

Bioparc Fuengirola, Spain

Conservation status: Endangered

Too Hot! - Snow Leopard - Anna - San Diego Zoo, 9-7-2015

Amur Leopard Cub at Twycross Zoo

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)

Range: Mountain ranges of Central Asia from Northwestern China to Tibet and the Himalayas.

Status: Endangered

 

This Snow Leopard spends a lot of time on the high platform in its cage. It spends a lot of time watching the next cage in the display, hoping to catch sight of the Amur Leopard that lives there.

 

Taken at the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan.

The rather forlorn looking Leadwood Tom, young leopard. Ngala, South Africa

Although I love visiting zoos and strongly feel they serve a great purpose of preservation and education, it still saddens me a little to see these beautiful animals in captivity.

Leopards the Serengeti Masai Mara ecosystem.

 

Back in the 1960's there were over 200,000 lions in Africa. Today there are less than 15.000 a decline of approaching 90%. Of those 15.000 remaining lions, only around 2.500 are adult males - the target of lion trophy hunters.

 

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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.

A very chilled out Amur Leopard

Parc des félins - Nesle

leopard in Ruaha NP

Watching you, seeing your every move.

Leopard (Male), Karongwe

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