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African Leopards
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Anderson Male
Kruger Pair Leopard and Juvenile Bush Elephant Namibian Leopard Kenyan Kruger Masai Mara
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When #Hukumuricrosses into #Londolozi and comes back with a follower Kruger Male Sabi Sands Male Kruger Male Botswana Male Mating Pair Tingana Kruger Male A large and lean beautiful male. tonywebb.aratasphotography The Sweni Waterhole Leopard. Big boy of Maasai Mara looking for Kaboso  *This image is copyright of its original author
howard.cleland A GLANCE FROM THE BOSS: The biggest cat I have ever seen looked like a lion until I picked up my 600mil. The beast of Lower Sabie had an impala in a tree and he came down to quench his thirst. Always looking at me. Exhilarating.
Some individuals from lesser known areas:
A leopard from Niokolo Koba National Park (southeastern Senegal). Impressive skull size.  *This image is copyright of its original author "Gustave, un léopard sauvage capturé dans le nord de la Côte d'Ivoire, près des villages de Bouaké" (= wild leopard captured in the nord of Ivory Coast). Again, impressive skull.  *This image is copyright of its original author Morro and Mano Rivers that border Sierra Leone and Liberia  *This image is copyright of its original author From WWF Cameroon  *This image is copyright of its original author
Some examples of West-African leopards
From COMOE Chimpanzee Conservation Project: "NOT ONLY CHIMPS are recorded with our camera traps. Leopards are common and widespread across Comoé National Park and we record them often, roaming around the same places where chimpanzees walk by. They are known for attacking chimps, although the apes can also defend themselves and even ocassionally kill the leopards. So far, we never detected chimp predation by leopards in our study area, which doesn"t mean that never happened"  *This image is copyright of its original author From Yankari National Park (Nigeria)  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author A video of a female leopard in Benin (from OeBenin - Organisation pour la promotion de l’éducation des filles au Bénin). I somehow can't directly post the video so here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/OeBenin/videos/1400409106689467/ Camera trap of a male leopard in Benin from Pendjari National Park.  *This image is copyright of its original author Sad but rare sight: "Last Egyptian leopard killed this week in a natural reserve close to the Red Sea" (link)  *This image is copyright of its original author
The Cape Leopard Trust
What better way to start a new week than with an epic leopard photo like this!! Our Cederberg team recently downloaded their latest batch of images from the camera traps, and among them was this absolute gem, taken in the height of winter near Bakleikraal in the Cederberg. This stunning adult male is known as CM41, or Gorib, which means ‘the spotted one’ in Central Khoisan languages. His name is particularly apt in this instance, with his dark rosettes in stark contrast to the white snowy surroundings. Downloading photos from the camera traps is always a treat, but images like these just make us jump for joy!  *This image is copyright of its original author
Male leopard from Mole National Park, Ghana
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Kruger Male
Male and Female in Kenya Kruger Male South Africa Serengeti Leopard  (06-02-2019, 05:00 PM)Lycaon Wrote: The Cape Leopard Trust Speaking of leopards in temperate regions, according to Sir Alfred Edward Pease, a British hunter in Africa who wrote the "Book of the lion" (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...4/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, besides being almost as large as it!  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Sir Pease (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...4/mode/2up) read in a French newspaper that an Algerian leopard killed in 1913 measured 8 feet 10 inches (269 cm), and that this was before being skinned. The record set by the Algerian panther is greater than that of an Indian leopard from Bilaspur, which had a weight of 71 kg (157 lbs), height of 34 inches (86 cm) at the shoulder, and length of 8 feet 7 inches (262 cm) from head to tail: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...227308.cms, http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himacha...42548.html  *This image is copyright of its original author In Page 100 (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...0/mode/2up), Pease quoted measurements for a Barbary lion from Algeria: *This image is copyright of its original author Assuming that this Algerian panther was about as large as an Algerian lion (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...4/mode/2up), what we are looking at is a dark, large, powerful and terrifying leopard that was possibly about 95 cm or 1⅜ inches at the shoulder, 8 feet 10 inches (269 cm) from head to tail (longer than how a normal male lion would be between the pegs, as in the length of the body without that of the tail). No wonder people in North Africa would fear a panther like that (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...6/mode/2up)!
@BorneanTiger
It seems that barbary leopards are quite large. Wonder if any of these "great dark panthers" are still around in the atlas mountains.
The rediscovery of the atlas leopard . Sadly this is the only current info I could find.
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