YLoveBigCats » Leopard http://ylovebigcats.com/en Big cats of the world, unite! Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:28:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Desertification kills 6000 species per year http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2012/02/19/desertification-kills-6000-species-per-year/ http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2012/02/19/desertification-kills-6000-species-per-year/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:08:51 +0000 Yves Roumazeilles http://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=811

desertification kills leopards

A very nice looking poster for a WWF campaign against desertification. With a leopard.

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A beautiful Russian documentairy video (translated into English) about the Amur Leopard, certainly the leopard species most clearly endagered by the very small number of animals left in the wild (in 1972, it was evaluated that their number was below 40 animals).


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more recently, thanks to scientific studies organized by ALTA – Amur Leopard Conservation, it has been shown that their number may be growing very slowly again.

Panthera pardus orientalis Critically Endangered according to the IUCN.

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Fortunately, I am referring to a photo-video trap, not hunters’ traps.

The critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) has been well observed by the WWF-financed counting operation in Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and Leopardoviy Federal Wildlife Refuge (Russia). This is very good news since the species is believed to count only about 50 animals in the wild. But the Russian traps appear to have allowed the observation of nothing less than 12 different individuals (instead of the 6 that were believed to live in the area).

Maybe the Amur leopard population is (very slowly) increasing.

The video shows a female and a grown-up cub, which may be a farily good indication that the reproduction may allow a slow recovery in this very small population of Amur leopards.


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]]> http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2011/08/07/amur-leopards-shot-in-a-trap/feed/ 0 Nice Smithsonian pictures http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2011/04/13/nice-smithsonian-pictures/ http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2011/04/13/nice-smithsonian-pictures/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:01:00 +0000 Yves Roumazeilles http://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=723

The Smithsonian, which is in United States of America the largest museum and scientific institution since 1846, recently published on-line a large collection of animal pictures taken by automatic cameras. They reveal a few unknown aspects of the animal behavior (when Man is not there to peep).

http://siwild.si.edu/

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Sometimes, cats love more than others.

Pink panther true love

Pink panther true love

]]> http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2011/02/14/one-true-love/feed/ 0 25 “Big Cat” Pictures http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2010/05/05/25-%e2%80%9cbig-cat%e2%80%9d-pictures/ http://ylovebigcats.com/en/2010/05/05/25-%e2%80%9cbig-cat%e2%80%9d-pictures/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 16:48:43 +0000 Yves Roumazeilles http://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=622

WebEcoist assembled some nice photos of the nicest big cats.

  • Tiger
  • White Tiger
  • Lion
  • Leopard
  • Black panther
  • Cheetah
  • Puma
  • Snow Leopard
  • Lynx
  • Caracal
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We knew dogs who loved wind and were hanging out the window of their owner’s car. Here comes their friend the leopard…


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Life of a predator is not always easy. When you’re a leopard, you must learn to attack a prey that is small enough not to counter-attack and you must learn to look left and right before rushing in.


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wildlife_photo_in_the_basket

This photo is part of a set published on The Big Picture by Alan Taylor.

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