What affects us affects cats
Mr Denny says that his six-year-old boy, Kellan Denny, is in shock but recovering well. He is at his home in Johannesburg. He had been snatched (bitten and dragged away) by a leopard while playing with his brother in a bush camp. Kellan and his brother Kai, 8, were running along a low wall …
Wild cat attacks on people are invariably the fault of a person or persons. There is no fault on behalf of the cat. The cat should be left alone after the attack. When a wild cat attacks a person in a safari park or a reserve the cat should not be killed. The cat …
The leopard is known for his spots. In fact they are “rosettes” (hollowed out, irregular shaped spots). Therefore a domestic cat that looks like a leopard must have spots. When a domestic cat has spots which are similar to the spots of a leopard then they more or less have to be a spotted …
How big is the leopard? Answer: Leopards have a head and body length of 1 to 1.5 meters. Rarely the leopard achieves almost 2 meters in length ( a meter is 3 feet 3⅜ inches). The size of the leopard is probably overestimated sometimes. A few leopards exceed an overall length (head, body and …
There are six species of leopard and in this article I am referring to the common leopard. This is because when people talk about the leopard, they really mean the common leopard. The word “endangered” means different things to different people. Technically the common leopard, scientific name Pantera pardus, is classified as being “Near …
As at 2015 we don’t know how many leopards are left in the entire world. This is because the reports giving figures vary so much that we can’t trust any of them. They must be guesstimates, estimates or wild guesses. Don’t believe the websites which confidently tell you how many there are. One report …
A page setting out the six species of leopard. For a long time there was confusion over the name of the leopard. I’ll write about that some other time but the Latin, scientific name is made up of the now obsolete names of this wild cat species: Pathera pardus (an amalgamation of “panther” and …
Leopards are stealthy and hard to spot in the wild. “The perfect predator” is how Johnathan Scott, an expert on the big cats of Africa, describes the leopard. The leopard was so good at hiding that big game hunters were upset! One big game hunter with a name one expects, Colonel Blashford, said, “The …
