Leopard
The leopard is an animal similar in appearance to a tiger, but smaller than him and have another in the appearance of hair that is shiny and has a dark, round spots with a diameter of about 2 cm thick occurring throughout the body. Color of hair on the back is yellow-orange, the belly white. There are also entirely black individuals, who have more dark pigment. Body leopard allows you to perform jumps to 8 meters in length, this is very fast and agile, but after a short time reached fatigue.

Other names: panther, leopard, rysiec

Occurrence, habitat: The area of ​​the whole of Africa outside the deserts of central and southern parts of Asia. He lives in the savanna, moist forests, plains and mountains.

Characteristics

Height 50-78 cm
The length of tail 100-159 cm
Tail length 58-110 cm
Weight 30-40 kg female
           50-65 kg male

Lifestyle: Leopards usually live alone, sometimes in flocks of a family for up to six individuals. Nocturnal when hunting, the day of rest. The territory occupied by the male has a surface area of ​​up to 40 km. The average life expectancy of a leopard is about 20-25 years.

Hunting: The leopard preys on smaller animals such as foxes, hares, rodents. It uses this to its agility and speed, but is unable to follow the victim to long because of rapid fatigue. Sometimes the hunted prey draws a tree in his limbs.

Nutrition: Food leopard is mostly small game fox, hare, mongoose, guinea fowl, snakes, lizards, fish, young antelope, river pigs, jackals, rodents, small monkeys, squirrels, sometimes, but rarely hunts for buffalo and antelope nilgau.

Reproduction: Pregnancy lasts for 90-112 days. Juveniles shortly after birth weigh about 300 g, born in the amount of 1-6. for about 8 days of age are blind.
Development: The leopard is fed breast milk for up to 7 months of age. Sexual maturity is achieved at the age of 2.5 to 3 years.

The threat of an animal: Older individuals, as well as sick and weak animals can attack livestock on farms, there are also rare attacks on humans.

Protection: They are very endangered leopard species extinction. These include the Amur leopard, Nimrah, Anatolian, Berber. Also threatened with extinction, but less than the above are the species: the leopard Chinese, Javanese, Ceylon, Persian, Sinaiticus, Transcaucasia, Panthera pardus dathei.