What affects us affects cats
Yes, leopards eat monkeys but it depends on where the leopard is living. They have an enormous distribution, the largest of all the wild cat species. In “some forested areas leopards take a surprisingly large number of monkeys”1. This should not surprise us because leopards catch prey opportunistically, killing vulnerable animals wherever they are …
Distances of 3 to 5 kilometers per day are measured in areas with abundant prey, but in less productive habitats leopards may walk 10 to 20 kilometres during a night’s hunting. That information in the quote above was published in 2002, 18 years ago in Wild Cats Of The World and concerns the common …
The photograph shows a group of men surrounding a dead leopard. The news headline is ‘Human-leopard conflicts increase’. Macho men like to demonstrate their courage and skill in killing leopards who wander into urban environments. This is where a lot of the direct human-leopard conflict takes place. You see many disturbing pictures of leopards …
WEST YORKSHIRE, UK – OPINION/NEWS: This is an amusing story from Metro.co.uk, and when I first heard it on the radio I had to agree with the presenter, Steve Allen, on LBC, when he mocked the man who thought he saw a leopard on the road while driving through West Yorkshire, UK. To put …
The answer appears to be yes, big cats do play – perhaps ‘toy’ is a better description – with their prey but they do it in a different way to domestic cats. Cat owners often see their cat playing with prey that is barely alive or dead indicating a style of play which is …
There is not a lot of data on the success rate of leopards hunting because they are secretive, solitary and often nocturnal to avoid humans. I am referring to the leopards of Africa. They are sometimes called ‘common leopards’. Estimates indicate that the leopard is not highly successful in hunting. T.N. Bailey in The …
We are talking about the number of mature individual cats of a wild cat species or subspecies living in the wild. That’s the true test as to whether a cat species is endangered. All three of the wild cats listed here are subspecies (but see Florida panther). At 2019 (the date is important as …
2019: People want to know how many Amur leopards are left in the wild. The date is important as numbers are relentlessly declining. The premier authority on the subject and the organisation which has the best up-to-date knowledge is the IUCN Red List. So what do they say? It is disappointing as usual. They …
