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Backgrounds Gallery of Animals - LEOPARDS
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Panthera pardus
Found throughout most of Africa and Asia, the leopard inhabits a variety of regions, such as tropical forests, brush and scrublands, rocky hillsides or the high, cold slopes of the Himalayas. Powerful and agile, the leopard is a deadly and efficient hunter. |
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The overall size of the leopard depends very much on the subspecies and location, with the largest animals growing to a length of nearly 5 feet with an additional tail length of some 3 feet - generally the male is between 20-40% larger than the female. |
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In cacheing its prey high in the boughs of trees, the leopard demonstrates its huge strength - its powerful limb and neck muscles enabling it to carry a fully grown male antelope or even young giraffe, often weighing up to three times its own body weight, high into the tree tops. |
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The leopard stalks its prey, creeps to within a few metres, then leaps or dashes at the victim, which is dispatched by a bite in the neck or smothered by a throat bite. In eastern Africa, the carcass is frequently brought up into a tree to protect it from scavengers. Their most common prey are hoofed animals, but they will eat dogs and monkeys as well. |
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Although no other wild cat has such a wide spread range and diverse prey base as the leopard, it is still under threat in many regions. Once common in all parts of Africa apart from the deserts of the Sahara, it has now gone from most parts of northern Africa, apart from a few widespread areas of the Atlas mountains and is scarce in the extreme west of the continent. |
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