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In waters cool, four eyes gleam bright,
One spotted coat, one fur of night.
A jungle cat, with gaze so bold,
A timber wolf, with stories untold.
They share a space, serene and deep,
Where secrets of the wild they keep.
A moment caught, in light's soft play,
A silent tale, they hide away.
Our second major leopard encounter was with this big male. From the look of his belly, he must be a good hunter who had eaten recently. When we found him, the leopard appeared to be sleeping (or at least pretending and ignoring us). But luckily he awoke and gave us some photo opportunities before getting up and descending from his perch.
This time in 9 days I had only 1 leopard sighting but it was a beautiful young leopard with an impala kill hidden in the grass just next to the road. She(?) was a bit shy and after a few more cars stopped it became too busy. The leopard disappeared in the long grass to wait for the evening probably to finish her(?) meal.
Taken in Okonjima Reserve Namibia on the way to Etosha National Park.
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An 80 kg dominant male leopard. Notice his chewed right ear from scrapes over his 12 odd years.
Londolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
The snow leopard is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae. The species is native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
The classic leopard picture! This leopard disappeared later in a higher and very dense part of the tree, invisible for everyone. So the cars left!
The scientific name of the snow leopard is Uncia uncia, and is the state animal of Himachal Pradesh, a north Indian state in the western Himalayas. The Snow leopard is also the National Heritage Animal of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Snow leopards are slightly smaller than the other big cats. They are stocky cats with relatively short legs, they have a short body but the tail is quite long. Their fur is long and think and is a smoky gray with tan patches.They have dark grey to black open rosettes with small spots on their heads and larger spots on their legs and tails. Their eyes are pale green or grey in color. Their paws are wide, to distribute their weight for walking on snow, and have fur on their undersides to increase their grip on steep and unstable surfaces, which is important in the rocky terrain they inhabit. -Wikipedia
The snow leopard cannot roar, but it's vocalizations include hissing, chuffing, mews, growls, and wailing.
Which I heard once at the SD Zoo when mate of the snow leopard died, you could hear her wailing. It was the saddest thing I ever heard.
In 1972, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) placed the snow leopard on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered; the same threat category was applied in the assessment conducted in 2008. -Endangered
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