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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.
Native range by continent(s) Range map 1 Tiger: ... North and South America: 5 Leopard: Panthera pardus: 30–65.8 ... North America: 11 Caracal:
Across its range, the leopard coexists with a number of other large predators. In Africa, it is part of a large predator guild with lions, cheetahs, spotted and brown hyenas, and African wild dogs. [126] The leopard is dominant only over the cheetah while the others have the advantage of size, pack numbers or both. [66]
Blue is the range of Felinae (excluding the domestic cat), green is the range of Pantherinae. Felidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is called a felid. [1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to domestic cats.
A black African leopard (P. p. pardus) was sighted in the alpine zone of Mount Kenya in the winter of 1989–1990. [9] In Kenya's Laikipia County, a black leopard was photographed by a camera trap in 2007; in 2018, a female subadult black leopard was repeatedly recorded together with a spotted leopard about 50 km (31 mi) farther east in a ...
North America: 24 Maned wolf: Chrysocyon brachyurus: Canidae: 20-30: 36 [70] 1.5 - 1.8 [71] [72] 1.9 [73] 0.90: South America: 25 African wild dog: Lycaon pictus: Canidae: 20-30 [74] 36 [75] 1.10 - 1.40 [76] 1.5 [77] 0.75: Africa: 26 Coyote: Canis latrans: Canidae: 8-20: 33.91 [78] 1.0 - 1.3 [79] 1.5 [80] 0.70: North America: 27 Wolverine: Gulo ...
The generic name Leopardus was proposed by John Edward Gray in 1842, when he described two spotted cat skins from Central America and two from India in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. [8] Several genera were proposed in the 19th and early 20th centuries for small spotted cats in the Americas, including:
The Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is located in South Africa between the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg to the east and Rustenburg to the west. The reserve lies at the interface of two great African biomes — the Central Grassland Plateaux and the sub-Saharan savannah — and the remnants of a third biome, the Afro‐montane forest.