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Just on our way out of Kruger at Orpen Gate,this leopard came walking down the road.I was lucky to get this picture,some 30 seconds later he vanished into the long grass.Our one and only big cat encounter this day.
Leopard in Tanzania
RJB Tanzania, Africa Tours
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/125s f/8.0 at 340.0mm iso200
A leopard keeps an eye on his kill in a tree while searching for scraps that he'd dropped earlier. Read about our awesome encounter with this chilled out leopard here.
We watched this Leopard for over 30 minutes, hoping she'd move to enable a clearer shot. This was my best image of her but what a magical moment in South Africa
Another shot from our encounter with a couple of tree dwelling leopards. To say we were all blown away when we came across these magnificent creatures was an understatement. Leopards are extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild so I'm told. To find two of them finishing off their impala kill in the early morning sun having dragged the carcass into a large tree was a rarity. This was a big draw and pulled in safari vehicles from far and wide. By the time we left the spot there must have been 8-10 vehicles surrounding the tree.
Leopards are astoundingly strong and are renowned for their agility. They are pound for pound the strongest of the big cats. They are able to climb trees, even when carrying heavy prey, and often choose to rest on tree branches during the day. One reason why leopards sometimes take their prey up in the trees is to ensure lions or hyenas can’t steal them. The leopard is the most elusive and secretive of the large cats.
Original jpeg straight from the camera with amajor crop and a few tweaks in acr and photoshop. Fuji X-E2 with 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 (effective focal length 502mm @ 35mm), aperture f7.1, exposure 1/350 sec, ISO 800 taken resting on the top of a safari vehicle.
Snow leopard species are endangered species .. The snow leopard rarely meets humans, lives in the caves of the mountains and can kill a prey three times its size .. There are between 600 and 700 in zoos
I didn't get many photos of the snow leopard but the few I did I really liked.
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
The Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), or Iranian leopard is one of the subspecies of leopards that's native to western Asia. The Persian leopard is endangered throughout its distribution area in the Middle East. The Persian Leopard is said to be the largest of all the subspecies of leopards in the world. It thrives in Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and northwestern Afghanistan. Habitat varies from mountain steppe to grasslands, or anywhere having a reasonable amount of cover and a supply of prey.
The leopard sat down at this vegetation about 45-50 feet away, and gave us several nice poses.
Each pose is unique and interesting in its own way, and I decided to upload several of these.
Maasai Mara, Kenya
This is one of the snow leopards at the zoo at Karlsruhe, Germany. I think it's the male. When I arrived he was just about to leave the front area of the enclosure. I was lucky, though, as before he disappeared out of sight he turned around once again and I managed to take this photo.
The capture was taken through glass.