African Leopards

[Luipaard]

(06-22-2019, 02:40 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(06-22-2019, 11:17 AM)Luipaard Wrote: 'Mountain leopard' killed in Egypt, after attacking a nine-year-old girl who unfortunately succumbed to her wounds:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2016/09/28/nine-year-old-girl-killed-in-egypt-by-mountain-leopard/

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On December 16, 2014 an Egyptian leopard was killed after it attacked a camel that belonged to a group of shepherds. The leopard was killed in Elba Protected Area. (https://thejaguarandallies.com/2016/01/24/leopard-confirmed-in-egypt-for-the-first-time-in-65-years/, https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2015-0089/mammalia-2015-0089.xml)

I know about Elba Protected Ara in southeast Egypt, just north of northeast Sudan, because a leopard had been killed there in 2014, and it was the first such sighting in 65 years of a leopard in the country (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.20...5-0089.xml), which also owns the Sinai Peninsula, which used to have its own population or subspecies of leopard: the Sinai leopard, formerly Panthera pardus jarvisi: http://www.biosoil.ru/files/00001386.pdf), but this wasn't a wild leopard, but a farm-bred leopard. I know about tiger farms in China and Indochina, due to the demand for tiger parts or bodies (https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/tiger-farm-asia), which happens to be a reason why tigers are illegally poached (https://books.google.com/books?id=XFIbjB...rm&f=false), but why would a Northeast African country like Egypt have a farm for breeding animals such as leopards? 

"Speaking to Youm7, investigative officials said that the leopard had escaped from a farm that had been licensed by the Ministry of Agriculture to privately breed a range of animals. After escaping, the leopard travelled to Kafr Hameed, which is more elevated than other nearby areas.

The owner of the farm has been summoned for investigation and may face charges relating to the escape."

Wow I have never heard of the Sinai leopard before! That's something I got to research  Reply