A Michael Broad Blog
We can see that this is a leopard and not a jaguar as the leopard is slenderer than the stockier jaguar. They melanistic jaguars look amazing. I don’t know where it was taken. It could be one of many countries as the common leopard has the widest distribution of all the wild cat species. …
Yes, leopards eat zebras and lion cubs when possible. The leopard has a very wide range of prey animals and their diet is reflected in the list of prey animals available in the area where they are living. For example, ‘at least 92 prey species are recorded in the diet of sub-Saharan leopards’ (TN …
OPINION – Guwahati, Kamrup Metropolitan, India: As I read the news media daily about cats, I not infrequently read stories about leopards falling into deep wells in India. Fortunately, the animal is often hauled to safety with a lot of effort from local people if they have survived. The only reason why leopards fall …
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 …
It seems that the biggest animal that a leopard has been recorded killing is an adult eland bull, an animal about ten times the weight of the male leopard which killed it. If the male leopard weighed around 70 kg (154 lbs) – a good weight for a male which averages around 60kg – …
When are leopards most active? The answer depends upon the location and the circumstances under which the leopard lives. Although it is true that in many areas leopards are mostly nocturnal, there are exceptions. Where they are hunted extensively or harassed by people they are nocturnal. Leopards are less nocturnal in areas where there …
Cobweb leopards exhibit a form of vitiligo which in humans produces patches of pale, white skin due to a lack of melanin being produced by pigment producing cells called melanocytes. Glasgow Zoo, Scotland acquired a 10-year-old black leopard from Dublin Zoo, Ireland in the early 1980s. She was a cobweb leopard as she exhibited …
They say that the pink leopard is the rarest of cats. They are sometimes referred to as ‘strawberry leopards’. Their coat has a faint pink hue due to what must be a spontaneous genetic mutation. It’s the kind of mutation which causes melanism in wild cats which makes the coat dark charcoal with ghost …
