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African leopard at Etosha National Park. The names Asiatic leopard and Asian leopard refer to any of the following leopard (Panthera pardus) subspecies in Asia: Amur leopard (P. p. orientalis) Anatolian or Persian leopard (P. p. tulliana) Arabian leopard (P. p. nimr) Indian leopard (P. p. fusca) Indochinese leopard (P. p. delacouri) Javan ...
The Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) is a leopard subspecies native to mainland Southeast Asia and southern China. In Indochina, leopards are rare outside protected areas and threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation as well as poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. In 2016, the population was previously thought to ...
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 clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), also called mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through Northeast India and Bhutan to mainland Southeast Asia into South China. It was first described in 1821 on the basis of a skin of an individual from China. The clouded leopard has large ...
P. p. sindica was proposed by Pocock in 1930 for a single skin and two skulls from the Kirthar Mountains in Balochistan; the skin closely resembled Persian leopard and Asia Minor leopard skins, but its colour differed from the colour of the Indian leopard (P. p. fusca). [7] It was subsumed to P. p. saxicolor based on molecular genetic analysis ...
The term “Chinese leopard” refers to any of the following three leopard (Panthera pardus) subspecies present over several regions within China: the Indian leopard (P. p. fusca) occurs as far north as southern Tibet, in the uppermost reaches of its natural range; it has also been recorded in Qomolangma National Nature Preserve.
The Amur leopard was one of the most abundant large carnivores in the Korean peninsula. However, they are extremely rare in North Korea. However, they are extremely rare in North Korea. Approximately 100 species of mammal are known to inhabit, or to have recently inhabited, the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters.
Since the founding years of modern Singapore in 1819, over 90 species have been recorded, including megafauna such as tigers, leopards and sambar deer. Most of these have since become locally extinct largely due to rapid urban development, with occasional large mammals such as Asian elephants swimming across the Straits of Johor from Johor ...