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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 Bronx Zoo housed a live snow leopard in 1903; this was the first ever specimen exhibited in a North American zoo. [85] The first captive bred snow leopard cubs were born in the 1990s in the Beijing Zoo. [57] The Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan was initiated in 1984; by 1986, American zoos held 234 individuals. [86] [87]
It crossed the Isthmus of Panama probably during the Great American Biotic Interchange in the late Pliocene. [4] Leopardus vorohuensis is an extinct species of the genus, of which fossils were found in the Argentinian Vorohué Formation dated to the early Pleistocene; its supraorbital foramen and shape of teeth resemble those of the pampas cat. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Variant of leopard and jaguar For other uses, see Black panther (disambiguation). A melanistic Indian leopard in Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). Black panthers of both ...
Animal control workers responded to a call about a “leopard” spotted in Oakley — roughly 6 miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati — early in the morning Jan. 28, Cincinnati Animal CARE ...
This is a list of extant species in the Felidae family, which aims to evaluate their size, ordered by maximum reported weight and size of wild individuals on record. The list does not contain cat hybrids, such as the liger or tigon, nor extinct species such as Panthera fossilis and Smilodon populator, which are suggested to have exceeded living felids in size.
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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.