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

[BorneanTiger]

(05-16-2019, 10:37 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(05-16-2019, 01:04 PM)Luipaard Wrote:

(05-16-2019, 12:58 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @Luipaard 

Fortunatley barbary leopards are still extant though not much is known of their current status. Here a male in the morocco

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Well they're as good as extinct given the lack of attention in Morocco and Algeria.

Few people do give them attention, it seems: 

By the way, check out what I posted about Caucasian or Persian leopards in European Russia: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-european-felids

Forward from (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-europea...7#pid82057), note that the Caucasus is to the east of the Black Sea, and that Anatolia is to the south of the sea. West of the sea lie the Balkans, including Greece: 

https://profwaqarhussain.blogspot.com/20...k-sea.html 

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http://davidsbeenhere.com/2015/01/02/languages-balkans/ 

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And it appears from the work of Homer that the leopard occurred in Greece, like the lion, lynx and bear: https://www.researchgate.net/publication...cal_record 
   

The twist is this, the Asiatic lion, which currently survives in India, and used to inhabit Anatolia and the Caucasus (https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...0/mode/2up), and is believed to be the same race as the Greek or European lion (https://books.google.com/books?id=TX7BmP...&q&f=false, https://books.google.com/books?id=GWslAA...on&f=false). If the European lion that occurred to the west of the Black Sea is the same race as the Asiatic lion, which occurred to the south and west of the sea, then is the Greek or European leopard, which occurred to the west of the sea, the same race as the Anatolian or Caucasian leopard (bearing in mind that both have been grouped as Panthera pardus tulliana, Pages 73–75: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y)? Reply