(06-17-2015, 06:07 PM)'Majingilane' Wrote: Beautiful images.
I'm always at awe by how versatile and adaptable the leopard is. Lions and tigers are big and beautiful, but if something happens in their environment, maybe a drastic change in the landscape or big prey start to die or something like that and they are probably doomed.
But not the leopard and this is why it is my favorite big cat.
Yeah, maybe he's not as big or strong as the other big cats, but a leopard can survive everywhere, with the tiniest of prey or hunting big deers. This and the other leopard threads give testimony to how perfect of a creature they are.
Thank you.
 

 

(06-17-2015, 09:52 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(06-17-2015, 06:07 PM)'Majingilane' Wrote: Beautiful images.
I'm always at awe by how versatile and adaptable the leopard is. Lions and tigers are big and beautiful, but if something happens in their environment, maybe a drastic change in the landscape or big prey start to die or something like that and they are probably doomed.
But not the leopard and this is why it is my favorite big cat.
Yeah, maybe he's not as big or strong as the other big cats, but a leopard can survive everywhere, with the tiniest of prey or hunting big deers. This and the other leopard threads give testimony to how perfect of a creature they are.
Thank you.
 


 

Extremely versatile cat, probably the most versatile.
But the tiger and lion are also extremely versatile as well, just look at the adaptions made in Tigers, the immense difference in size and personality from Sumatra to India to Russia/China to Sunderbans and so on.... But they will always need more food and land as they are still much larger than Leopards, even at their smallest.

I also think Jags are extremely underrated, they have few run ins with human beings and live in very close proximity to them.

 

 

(06-17-2015, 11:57 PM)'Pantherinae' Wrote:

(06-17-2015, 09:52 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(06-17-2015, 06:07 PM)'Majingilane' Wrote: Beautiful images.
I'm always at awe by how versatile and adaptable the leopard is. Lions and tigers are big and beautiful, but if something happens in their environment, maybe a drastic change in the landscape or big prey start to die or something like that and they are probably doomed.
But not the leopard and this is why it is my favorite big cat.
Yeah, maybe he's not as big or strong as the other big cats, but a leopard can survive everywhere, with the tiniest of prey or hunting big deers. This and the other leopard threads give testimony to how perfect of a creature they are.
Thank you.
 



 

Extremely versatile cat, probably the most versatile.
But the tiger and lion are also extremely versatile as well, just look at the adaptions made in Tigers, the immense difference in size and personality from Sumatra to India to Russia/China to Sunderbans and so on.... But they will always need more food and land as they are still much larger than Leopards, even at their smallest.

I also think Jags are extremely underrated, they have few run ins with human beings and live in very close proximity to them.

 


 

Jaguars can be as low as 38 kg, leopards as high as 90 kg. 


 

 

(06-25-2015, 05:10 PM)'Jubatus' Wrote: @Pckts
No the biggest Leopard ever found was 96 kgs (Namibia), you also have an 86 kg perisan, and an even bigger 91 kg Persian, the list goes on. You also have reports of the Vin Diesel Male Leopard being weighed at 97 (Though there aren`t any good evidence of it, and it can`t be proved).
 

 

(06-26-2015, 01:08 AM)'Jubatus' Wrote: Alborz

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This huge male Persian Male Leopard called Alborz sadly comes to a tragic ending, as he had to be put down because of a fatal shot to his spine. On Jan. 3 2014 local authorities was called out to a huge, wounded Leopard barely crawling by the side of a river. A local wildlifeteam rushed out to find a leopard unable to properly move, that also had a fracture in one of his forelimbs. He was after taken to a rehablilitation center in Theran, where they tried to heal him. When he was taken back to the center it showed that he weighed 115 kgs, and was 8 years old (!). The examination showed that he had been shot several times during a one year period, with the most recent one penetreting his spine. The veterenarians relentles work to keep this magnificent animal alive sadly failed after 10 days, when they saw that the injury was to dredful for the leopard to stay alive, and he had to be put down. The person guilty was luckily found, it turned out to be a father and a son who had shot the Leopard. And they were detanied to 6 months of prison, and a fine of 50,000,000 IRR (1600 USD). 


The whole article, and other Leopard news can be read in the Iranian Cheetah Society`s Perisan Leopard News letter. Here is a link to the one with this article:
http://www.rufford.org/files/Persian%20Leopard%20Newsletter,%20No.%207,%20Spring%202014.pdf