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Taken in Okonjima Reserve Namibia on the way to Etosha National Park.
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One of my favourite safari pictures of a quite amazing female leopard whom we were privileged to be with for half an hour or so
An 80 kg dominant male leopard. Notice his chewed right ear from scrapes over his 12 odd years.
Londolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
Ever wary, this leopard pauses for a drink while guarding her cub and her treed kill from pestering hyaenas. I looked up the GPS location in the Lightroom Map module and this happens to be in an area called "Leopard Gorge" (Maasai Mara, Kenya). How appropriate. From my 2012 Kenya safari.
Reptons Coaches of Little Bookham began with a single Bedford YRT / Duple Dominant coach back in 1987. Since then they have had around 55 vehicles ranging from small minibuses, single deck buses up to executive tri-axle coaches.
The current fleet consists of 6 coaches, 4 buses and a couple of heritage coaches undergoing restoration.
On my visit to their depot in late October 2020 I came across Volvo B8R / Plaxton Leopard C53FT REP694, new in 2019.
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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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!
Khwai, Botswana
Our penultimate day in Botswana turned into something of a Leopard-fest spent with this stunning female. We had an hour with her in the morning and this shot was taken as she came down from a tree to find some shade. In late afternoon we had another fascinating two hours with her.
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This is a Leopard tree which is rather common around here, and gives fantastic shade.
This is on of many along the edge of the local sports ground and park, and as Mrs Mail and I went by on our early morning walk, I noticed the sun was able to reflect back up to the branches lighting them up.
So I went back with the camera and returned, but the sunlight had diminished somewhat.
I left the camera face on the ground and took shots with/without flash, and processed them as HDR.
The breeze had moved the leaves slightly, so there is some lack of clarity, and I purposely edited it to look like it was out of an animated movie.
The Leopards seem to be at their peak in April and provide a huge shaded area for the childrens playground part of the park.
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The Amur leopard is considered to be one of the most critically endangered big cats in the world, with roughly 30-40 individuals remaining in the wild. Habitat loss and hunting (for trophies and use in traditional medicines) are the biggest threats to Amur leopards in the wild.
The Amur leopard has been a protected species in Russia since 1956, but poaching is still a problem. Conservation efforts in the wild for these animals include anti-poaching patrols, customs control, fighting forest fires, environmental education programmes and working closely with local communities.
Information sourced from Marwell Zoo.