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RE: African Leopards - nobody - 02-17-2019
RE: African Leopards - Lycaon - 03-05-2019
Kyle de Nobrega
A young male leopard in zakouma national park . Chad
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RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 03-07-2019
Leopard killed in North Africa (barbary leopard)
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RE: African Leopards - Lycaon - 03-07-2019
A leopard in mole national park Ghana
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RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 04-02-2019
A fine specimen from the Aberdare National Park, Kenya
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RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 04-04-2019
Male leopard in his prime
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RE: African Leopards - Shadow - 04-06-2019
This is one nice documentary about leopards if someone haven´t seen before. One fun part is from 36:00 to 36:35, that reaction of those lions, priceless in a way when thinking about that situation from leopard point of view
RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 04-09-2019
Fantastic specimen from Aberdare, Kenya. Rangers out there estimate him to weigh 180-200lb, which does seem accurate. Very impressive male!
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RE: African Leopards - Lycaon - 04-09-2019
A impressive benin leopard
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RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 04-10-2019
Adult male from Serengeti, Tanzania
RE: African Leopards - Luipaard - 04-10-2019
(04-09-2019, 04:47 PM)Lycaon Wrote: A impressive benin leopard
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Even more impressive if you flip the picture
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RE: African Leopards - Lycaon - 04-10-2019
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It is no wonder why the leopard was and is still worshiped in benin and west africa.
RE: African Leopards - Pckts - 04-16-2019
Pareet Shah - Cheka
They call him Double Cross BOSS. What an absolute beauty.
Tosha Wild Safaris
Cheka Wild — at Mara Olapa Camp.
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RE: African Leopards - Lycaon - 05-02-2019
Impressive senegal leopard
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RE: African Leopards - Styx38 - 05-03-2019
Somalian Leopards are dangerous despite their small size.
Quote:BREAKING: Leopard shot dead in Wanlaweyn town after it attacked and killed a man injured 7 others, Thursday, in a rare incident: residents
https://twitter.com/harunmaruf/status/915865108521390080?lang=en
The Somalian Leopard is among the smallest subspecies:
Females are around 23-27 kg, while males are 50 percent larger, which is 34.5-40.5 kg. (Big Cats By Tom Brakefield)
The Somalian Leopard that killed a man and caused havoc looks around the same size but maybe slightly bigger than the Cape Leopards.
Somalian Leopard:
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Cape Leopard:
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https://capeleopard.org.za/news-media/news/story/capture-for-conservation-leopard-trapping-in-the-cederberg-and-malawi
Video of a collared cape leopard:
As can be seen, these two overlap in size, but the Cape Leopards look relatively robust compared to the emaciated Somalian Leopard.
The Somalian Leopard was considered as a man eater during the British Somaliland (now part of Northern Somalia) :
Quote:In 1889 there was a leopard, said to be a panther, which had haunted the Mirso ledge of the Golis range for some years, and was supposed to have killed over a hundred people. It was in the habit of lying in wait at a corner of a very dark, rough jungle path, where huge rocks overlooked the track; and the Somalis used to show a boulder, some 6 feet high, a yard from the path, in the flat top of which was a depression shaped like a panther's body, from which the beast was said to spring upon travellers.
account of H.G.C. Swayne in Great and Small Game of Africa by Henry Bryden
So even a small Leopard (or subspecies) is too dangerous for humans.
Late Edit:
Here is a 37 kg Leopard in comparison:
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https://capeleopard.org.za/news-media/news/story/487/to-catch-a-ghost