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-leopard...9#pid82539, https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-african...0#pid82540), according to Sir Alfred Edward Pease, a British hunter in Africa who wrote the "Book of the lion" (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...6/mode/2up), in the Atlas region of North Africa, the black panther, as in a melanistic version of the Barbary leopard, was a more ferocious and feared man-eater than the Barbary lion: 

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