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Leopardus is a genus comprising eight species of small cats native to the Americas. [3] This genus is considered the oldest branch of a genetic lineage of small cats in the Americas whose common ancestor crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia to North America in the late Miocene .
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant cat species in the genus Panthera.It has a pale yellowish to dark golden fur with dark spots grouped in rosettes.Its body is slender and muscular reaching a length of 92–183 cm (36–72 in) with a 66–102 cm (26–40 in) long tail and a shoulder height of 60–70 cm (24–28 in).
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.
Genus Leopardus – Gray, 1842 – eight species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Andean mountain cat. L. jacobita (Cornalia, 1865) Andes mountains: Size: 57–65 cm (22–26 in) long, 41–48 cm (16–19 in) tail [23] Habitat: Rocky areas, shrubland, and grassland [24]
Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.
The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is a medium-sized spotted wild cat that reaches 40–50 cm (16–20 in) at the shoulders and weighs between 7 and 15.5 kg (15 and 34 lb) on average. It is native to the southwestern United States , Mexico , Central and South America , and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Margarita .
It is the state animal of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh in India. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] The 1978 book The Snow Leopard is an account by Peter Matthiessen about his two-month journey through the Dolpo region of the Nepal Himalayas in search of the snow leopard.
[9] [10] The kodkod was subordinated to Leopardus in 1958, [11] and to Oncifelis in 1978. [12] Today, the genus Leopardus is widely recognized as valid, with two kodkod subspecies: [13] L. g. guigna (Molina, 1782) occurs in southern Chile and Argentina; L. g. tigrillo (Schinz, 1844) occurs in central and northern Chile