Leopard: The Sneakiest Wildcat Ever

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Leopards are Masters of Stealth

The leopard uses stealth to catch and kill it's prey. Using the pattern of it's fur coat it camouflages it's self. Silently it stalks its prey and at the last minute pounces on its prey quickly delivering a fatal bit to the throat. Leopards are the sneakiest wildcats ever!

The Top Five Reasons Leopard is the Sneakiest Wildcat 

  • It is quite
  • It sneaks up on it's prey
  • It is a silent hunter
  • Prey never hears it coming
  • It is the ninja of the wildcats

Description of Leopards 

Leopards look much like jaguars with similar markings and body size. They have short legs and a stocky body.The difference between jaguars and leopards is the size of the markings. The leopard has smaller markings on it's body.

Out of the African and Asian wildcats the leopard is the largest spotted cat. Their total body length can get up to 5 feet in length and thy can weigh up to 155 pounds. Male leopards are often much heavier that females sometime weighing twice as much as the average female.

Leopards have long muscular bodies and short powerful limbs. Even with their size they are very agile and graceful. They are superb climbers and very agile when up in the trees. They are one of the only tree climbers with the ability to come down head first. They are also very good jumpers and can jump distances of over 20 feet.

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Leopards on Wikipedia 

The leopard (; Panthera pardus) is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera; the other three are the tiger, lion and jaguar. Once distributed across southern Asia and Africa, from Korea to South Africa, the leopard's range of distribution has decreased radically over time due to hunting and loss of habitat, and the leopard now chiefly occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. There are fragmented populations in Pakistan, India, Indochina, Malaysia, and China. Due to the loss of range and continual declines in population, the cat has been downgraded to "Near Threatened" species; its numbers are greater than that of the other Panthera species, all of which face more acute conservation concerns.

The leopard has relatively short legs and a long body, with a large skull. Physically, it most closely resembles the jaguar, although it is usually smaller and of slighter build. Its fur is marked with rosettes which lack internal spots, unlike those of the jaguar. Leopards that are melanistic, either completely black or very dark in coloration, are one of the big cats known colloquially as black panthers.

The species' success in the wild owes in part to its opportunistic hunting behaviour, its adaptability to a variety of habitats and its ability to move at up to approximately 58 kilometres (36 miles) an hour.http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-leopard.html The leopard consumes virtually any animal it can hunt down and catch. Its preferred habitat ranges from rainforest to desert terrains. Its ecological role and status resembles that of the similarly-sized cougar in the Americas.

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