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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 ...
The Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Borneo and Sumatra. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2015, as the total effective population probably consists of fewer than 10,000 mature individuals, with a decreasing population trend. On both Sunda Islands, it is threatened by deforestation ...
Neofelis nebulosa brachyurus (Swinhoe, 1862) The Formosan clouded leopard is a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) population that was endemic to Taiwan. [3] Camera trapping studies carried out in several protected areas in Taiwan between 1997 and 2012 did not record any clouded leopard. [4][5] The population is listed as extinct on the IUCN ...
The Nashville Zoo's newest clouded leopard is the first of his species to be born via artificial insemination using cryopreserved semen. This clouded leopard cub is one of a kind Skip to main content
The Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi borneensis) is a subspecies of the Sunda clouded leopard. It is native to the island of Borneo, and differs from the Batu - Sumatran clouded leopard in the shape and frequency of spots, as well as in cranio - mandibular and dental characters. [1] In 2017, the Cat Classification Taskforce of the Cat ...
The park shared a video on Monday, June 3rd of Sydney giving a Clouded leopard cub a bath, and it's a whole minute of Zen! ... "Clouded leopards are beautiful, medium-sized stocky cats that are ...
Neofelis. Neofelis is a genus comprising two extant cat species in Southeast Asia: the clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa) of mainland Asia, and the Sunda clouded leopard ( Neofelis diardi) of Sumatra and Borneo. [ 2][ 3] The scientific name Neofelis is a composite of the Greek word neo- (νέος) meaning 'young' and 'new', and the Latin word ...
The Sumatran clouded leopard is estimated to have diverged from the Bornean clouded leopard in the Late Pleistocene, between 400 and 120 thousand years ago. Land bridges that were created due to low sea levels in the Late Pleistocene were submerged by rising sea levels, resulting in the Sumatran clouded leopard becoming separated from the mainland population at this time.