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The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa. It is widely distributed in most of sub-Saharan Africa, but the historical range has been fragmented in the course of habitat conversion. Leopards have also been recorded in North Africa as well.
It is the most widespread leopard subspecies and is native to most of Sub-Saharan Africa, but likely locally extinct in Mauritania, Togo, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya and most likely also in Gambia and Lesotho. [2] Indian leopard (P. p. fusca) (Meyer, 1794) [18] It occurs in the Indian subcontinent, Myanmar and southern Tibet.
Much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, the Caucasus in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Siberia: Size: 91–191 cm (36–75 in) long, 51–101 cm (20–40 in) tail [34] Habitat: Forest, desert, rocky areas, grassland, savanna, and shrubland [35] Diet: Ungulates, as well as other mammals, insects, reptiles, and birds [35]
Much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, the Caucasus in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Siberia: Size: 91–191 cm (36–75 in) long, 51–101 cm (20–40 in) tail [86] Habitat: Forest, desert, rocky areas, grassland, savanna, and shrubland [87] Diet: Ungulates, as well as other mammals, insects, reptiles, and birds [87]
Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 1.2 billion people, contains less than 10% of sites inscribed on the list. Moreover, Africa has a higher percentage of World Heritages sites in danger than any other ...
Approximately 100,000 species of insects have been described from Sub-Saharan Africa, but there are very few overviews of the fauna as a whole [27] (it has been estimated that the African insects make up about 10-20% of the global insect species richness, [28] and about 15% of new species descriptions come from Afrotropics [29]).
However, alleged leopard sightings are still being reported, and islanders believe that the Zanzibar leopard is still alive. [16] By the mid-1990s, the Zanzibar leopard population was considered extinct. [17] In 1997 and 2001, rumors circulated about the discovery of leopard scat, but both samples were lost before they could be analyzed. [5]
Roan antelope. The wildlife of Togo is composed of the flora and fauna of Togo, a country in West Africa.Despite its small size the country has a diversity of habitats; there are only remnants of the once more extensive rain forests in the south, there is Sudanian savanna in the north-western part of the country and larger areas of Guinean forest–savanna mosaic in the centre and north-east.