Category: Leopard
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Panthera, species and subspecies
Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the leopard and the jaguar. The genus comprises about half of the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this family. Only these four cat species have the anatomical…
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Leopards by Florence Diguer
Florence is a friend who came to wildlife photography only relatively recently, but she’s progressing quite quickly. Sometimes, she is lucky enough to make an exceptional encounter. Today, she is showing us leopards found in the Okavango delta in Botswana, including a family feeding on a prey hauled up in a tree to protect it…
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Leopard buried with 12,000-year-old shaman
Found in the North of Israel, here is a shaman buried 12,000 years ago, with some significant grave offerings: 50 tortoise shells A leopard pelvis A human foot Right! The leopard does not seem in very good company, but it must have been quite a burial. Source: Science Blog.
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Rarest big cat caught for a check-up
When you are the rarest wild big cat, you deserve some unusual attention. This is what explains the special treatment of the Amur Leopard or Far Eastern Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis). It is widely considered as the single most endangered species of big cats with less than 50 individuals living in the wild (and only…
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Leopard in a tree
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Leopard (Panthera pardus, Léopard, Leopardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Lions would want to be house cats
Or so it seems according to this advertisment for cat food.