ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - D - THE LEOPARD (Panthera pardus)

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(01-15-2018, 05:39 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Ngala @Polar :

About #124: I translate without any comments...

Title: "A Middle Atlas panther shot by a meknassi hunter".

Meknes, 2th december: A meknassi hunter (an hunter from Meknes) shot a panther in the Middle Atlas. During a boar hunting the animal has been shot. Three boars had been already shooting for the morning by a group of hunters. As the sun was still high, a new trap was decided in order to realize (to kill) a 4th beast, that it will make up a ????( a complete, but it has no sense). Whereas he was lying in wait, Mr Emmanuel Patounas, schoolmaster at the Moulay Ismael highscool of Meknes, suddendly saw a beautiful panther appearing in front of him. After a bit of a scare he shot the animal which slumped forward before being attacked by the dogs. During the fight 2 dogs were wounded. The beast had to be finished off (killed), a really beautiful panther: 2m25 length, 0m75 high, weighing 70 kilos.

The reader reaction: " For the dogs, it's a joke. The one that hurts (the panther) is the one that holds the beast, the killer the one that holds the mouth, and your servant the one that holds the paw. Laurent and Jeannot (?) were in the game as you can see (notice) it".

Sir Alfred Edward Pease, a British hunter who wrote extensively about animals in places where he had been to, including Barbary lions and leopards in North Africa, made claims about Atlas panthers in his book, The Book of the Lion, that you may find astonishing. He said that North African black panthers were bigger and more muscular than common leopards, to the extent as being roughly as large as lions, and that these panthers were worse man-eaters than the Atlas lions, and were held in greater dread by people in North Africa than the latter.

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The record of 8 feet 10 inches (269 cm) for that Algerian panther (before skinning) is slightly more than that of the Bilaspur leopard, considered to be India's longest leopard, which measured 8 feet 7 inches (262 cm) from head to tail, and 34 inches (86 cm) at the shoulder, and weighed 71 kg (157 lbs).


The Indian leopard from Bilaspur: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...227308.cms, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himach...42548.html

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