North Chinese Leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis)

[Twico5]

(03-11-2022, 01:55 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: @Twico5, this is an Indochinese leopard. Tibet hosts indochinese leopard in it’s southern and southeastern parts (the Nujiang river is next to Myanmar) while southwestern tibet is host to Indian Leopards. Tibet is not home to any North-Chinese leopards.

Leopards in southern Tibet are considered Indian leopards. This leopard skin is from lhasa, xizang province. 

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According to this map it would be an Indian leopard, being so close to Bhutan and Nepal. Yet this woiuld be considered northernmost Indian leopard because there are no leopards north of this point until the populations in qinghai and northern xizang which definitely are considered north Chinese leopards.

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According to this article (The current distribution and status of leopards Panthera pardus in China) leopards in lhasa tibet and south of it would be separated from north Chinese leopards in northern Tibet by high mountain ranges, these populations are simply too far apart. Though as mentioned in the screenshot, we cannot be uncertain as there has been no genetic study conducted on this. Here is what is considered to be a north Chinese leopard from Tibet:

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