Here are thirteen facts about leopards:
1. Leopards are the most successful and cunning among big cats.
2. Like most cats, leopards are solitary creatures that hunt mainly at night.
3. Leopards have a very beautiful coat with a tawny background and rosettes, that aids them in camouflage.
4. The Snow Leopard is a most remarkable cat that operates in extremely difficult terrain and climate conditions at the top of the world - the Himalayas.
5. The Clouded Leopard has the longest canines amongst cat species.
6. The Amur Leopard is one of the most endangered animals in the world.
7. The Bornean Clouded Leopard is one of the most significant newly discovered mammalian species.
8. Leopards are masters of stealth and extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild.
9. Pound for pound, leopards are the strongest among big cats.
10. Leopards are the best tree climbers amongst big cats and are capable of taking prey that is twice their body weight, up a tree.
11. Melanistic variants among leopards - black leopards - are known as panthers.
12. Leopards are territorial animals and regularly mark and defend their domain against intruders.
13. Maneating leopards always operate at night since unlike tigers they never lose their fear of man and only enter human territories in the cover of darkness - according to famous hunter turned conservationist Jim Corbett. This makes them very difficult to counteract.
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12 comments:
Leopards are amazing Big Cats. We think we might be part leopard because we are also masters of stealth!
beautiful creatures, and interesting facts. thanks
Humans have often mistaken me for a white leopard. I'm sure you can see the resemblance.
leopards are incredible. i love that photo too. i like to think i'm stealthy, but i think those leopards have me beat!
Beautiful photo and interesting facts.I learned alot ...Thanks :)
Those are very interesting facts about Leopards.
As always Omer, very interesting facts. Enjoyed reading it. We deal with the little cats and always great to read about the big ones.
Very interesting. When I was really little I use to live close to a place called Marine World. Every year our class would go on a field trip, and my favorite part was always seeing the "big cats!"
Wow -- I didn't know most of that! You learn something new every day! Thanks for sharing!
Hi there!
Great post about leopards. Although I think you got a fact mixed up with jaguars:
9. Pound for pound, leopards are the strongest among big cats.
-The Jaguar, in a recent National Geographic special titled “In Search of the Jaguar,” was named pound for pound the strongest animal in the world.(emphasis added)
In addition to this, the jaguar also has the strongest bite force of any big cat.
Thanks for your observation Joe - Jaguars do have the greatest bite force among cats and they are quite strong but they are not the strongest cat - pound for pound leopards are extremely strong, carrying large prey animals both horizontally and vertically - clouded leopards in particularly are exceptional in the strength department. Peter Hathaway Capstick, the great hunter who had a close interaction with both Jaguars in the Amazon and Leopards in the African bush - testified to the superior strength of leopard among big cats per body weight. If you read Jim Corbett's accounts of the maneating leopards of Panar and Rudraprayag, you will be amazed by the unbelievable power of the leopard. Experts universally maintain that leopards can carry carcasses that are upto two to three times their body weight up a tree - for a three hundred pound Jaguar that would be equivalent of carrying around a nine hundred pound animal vertically - something quite hard to imagine!
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