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Both male and female leopards typically reach sexual maturity at 2–2⅓ years. [75] The generation length of the leopard is 9.3 years. [142] The average life span of a leopard is 12–17 years. [103] The oldest leopard was a captive female that died at the age of 24 years, 2 months and 13 days. [143]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 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 ...
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger.
A jagupard, jagulep or jagleop is the hybrid of a male jaguar and a female leopard. A single rosetted female jagupard was produced at a zoo in Chicago, United States. Jaguar-leopard hybrids bred at Hellbrun Zoo, Salzburg were described as jagupards, which conforms to the usual portmanteau naming convention. [3] A leguar or lepjag is the hybrid ...
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]
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera that is native to the Americas.With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world.
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]
In September 2012, the first female leopard was photographed in Zangezur National Park close to the border with Iran. [41] During surveys in 2013–2014, camera traps recorded leopards in seven locations in Zangezur National Park, including two different females and one male. All sites are close to the border with Iran. [36]