A Michael Broad Blog
Unique footage using 40 hidden cameras has captured an Amur leopard and an Amur tiger walking along the same track in search of prey. They say that one is covering the tracks of the other. However, the Amur leopard is going to avoid a confrontation with the tiger. They will use what I call …
Your search for a leopard picture is over. Here are some pictures by the very experienced and skilled professional wildlife photographer, John Devries and others. I am not sure where some of them were taken but I think they were all taken in Africa but the leopard range extends much more widely and into …
Introduction This page has been refreshed at Dec 28, 2021. This is necessary in order to keep an eye on the population numbers to see whether they are increasing or decreasing (nearly always decreasing) and on the cat’s distribution i.e. where they can be found, which usually shrinks year-on-year due to increased human population …
No, an individual leopard can’t change their spots once they are fully developed. But the background colour varies considerably across the cats huge distribution. And leopard markings are, in fact, dark spots to rosettes which vary in ‘size, shape, thickness of margins and whether the margins are broken into two, three, four or even …
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 …
This photo shows us a forest and in the forest is a very rare wild cat big, an Amur leopard. It camouflaging coat hides the cat brilliantly to point where it is all but impossible to see the cat. The picture was taken in the Land of the Leopard Nature Reserve in Russia’s Far …
The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is one of the world’s rarest wild cat species. The answer to the question in the title can be found on the IUCN Red List website but even they will be slightly imprecise because population measurement of wild cats is not precise. They say that the total population …
The current wildcat news which is considered good news is that the Amur leopard population has almost doubled to 12 (2011). The bad bit about this news is the ridiculously low figure. And let’s not forget that it is difficult to count wildcat numbers and there is nearly always a vested interest there somewhere …
