Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)

[brotherbear]

Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park - 2015.
Two Amur leopards live in the nature reserve. The female leopard had been born through three generations of inbreeding. A male leopard that comes by every once in a while has been breeding with his biological offspring for three generations. As a result, one of his female offspring died young, and the surviving female doesn't have the sharp sensitivity required to be a wild animal; her territory is small, she's not a very good hunter, and she doesn't react quickly to humans approach. On the upside, she's easy to capture on film. But even a leopard with such poor reflexes knows to clear out when a tiger is near. The inbreeding may have dulled her wild genes, but she still instinctively knows that tigers are trouble. Reply