The gender pardus leopard Leo is the most intelligent and one of the most dangerous of the big cats. You can live in the tropical rainforest and / or the open drier southeast Asia. It is smaller and not as fierce as the tiger and is generally found in Africa, southern India, Ceylon and Java.

Once thought which is a hybrid of a panther and a lion but has never been verified. The panther term can refer to a leopard, jaguar or puma. You can be up to 41 / 2 feet long with a tail of 3 feet. It's skin is a pale ocher-stained reddish black rosettes. A black leopard is also known to all as a black panther. Persian is gray and Java is reddish brown.

It is an excellent climber and swimmer. You can run over 36 miles per hour, jumping over 20 feet horizontally and jumping to nearly 10 feet vertically. It is a nocturnal hunter, but may hunt during the day if the sky is overcast. Like most cats, during the day is reserved for rest and sleep. Man tends to live alone, unless mating may occur throughout the year.

Being not as big as some of the other major predators such as lion or a tiger, you must find ways to search for food or can be eaten by predators. Hunting at different times of day or in areas not frequented by larger predators has been effective. If food is abundant, can coexist with their predators.

It feeds on langur monkeys, deer, antelope, boar, impala, antelope, baboons, domestic dogs, rodents and birds. Hunting only at dusk by sight or smell. After stalk their prey, they will kill for break the neck or rupture of the jugular vein, with his teeth. It will bury some of their food or hide their food in a tree to prevent scavengers for a moment later. Can it attacked a human or domestic animal, if there is insufficient food available.

At one point, 27 subspecies are believed to exist, but that has been reduced to nine on the basis of DNA analysis.
Africa – are in sub-Saharan Africa
Amur – is in the Far East of Russia, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China.
Arabic – is located in the Arabian Peninsula.
India – Located in the Indian subcontinent.
Indo-China – are continental Southeast Asia.
Java – Java and Indonesia.
North China – are in northern China.
Persian – Found in Central Asia.
Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka.

The market value of your skin is high. Using bait traps and pets are used to hunt and trap the leopard. It has been highlighted in art, mythology and folklore in antiquity. In Africa, is used as a shield or emblem of team sports. The pumapard, a cross between a leopard and a cougar, is the only known hybrid that was bred in 1890. It is the most widely distributed cat in Africa and Asia and is best viewed in national parks in those regions.

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