European felids

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(05-20-2019, 01:05 AM)Styx38 Wrote:

(05-17-2019, 11:04 AM)Luipaard Wrote:

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What did he eat? Did they mention the animal killed (or possibly scavenged) by the Leopard?



Anyway, they seem to be in small, scattered populations in the North Caucasus:

Quote: In April 2001, an adult female was shot on the border to Kabardino-Balkaria, her two cubs captured and taken to the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia.[11] During surveys in the Caucasus in 2007, the presence of leopard was confirmed, but it was estimated that the population comprises less than 50 individuals in the region.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_leopard#North_Caucasus
 Leopards live here because the Caucasus divides Europe and Asia. 
What would would be fascinating would be Leopards in French or German ecosystems. Even an area like the Ukraine would be surprising.
Hypothetically speaking, if Anatolia was still under Byzantine rule, the Leopards there would not only be considered European, but also have a great connection with mainstream European culture and tourism.

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