Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya)

[Pckts]

“Leopard Special from Sri Lanka” - Yala National Park

Photograph made on: 23rd May 2014

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[Dr Panthera]

(12-06-2015, 10:52 PM)SVTIGRIS Wrote: @GuateGojira interesting that, surprised that without lions or tigers leopards don't seem to fluctuate too much in size, I do however believe if we had to choose a largest subspecies of leopard I would still go for the Sri Lankan. Just due to the logic factor.

M.Farhidinia et al. published a comparative study of different leopard populations from around the world and concluded that Persian leopards are likely to be the largest in the world, they too no longer have lions nor tigers to compete with and have a good number of large and medium sized ungulates to exploit...note how leopards from both populations do not tree their kills but even the largest leopards in Africa and India do in areas where tigers, lions, or spotted hyenas abound.
And you are absolutely right there is little fluctuation with P.p.kotiya with most males in the 50's and 60's kg with the largest being 77 kg...African leopards can near 100 kg but some dwarf leopards hardly reach 30 kg. Reply

[Tshokwane]

Prasanna Ambigaibagan Nature & Wildlife Photography:
Willpattu National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Andrea & Antonella Ferrari
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Mevan Piyasena
"Its Throwback Thursday..and i choose my favorite leopard (Soorya) one of the many moments we met each other exclusively.... from Yala national park."

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[Tshokwane]

Prasanna Ambigaibagan Nature & Wildlife Photography:
Leopard - Prince "Y" @ Willpattu National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Andrea & Antonella Ferrari
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Jayaprakash Bojan Photography
"Srilankan Male Leopard(Panthera pardus kotiya)
Yala National Park, Srilanka
July 2013
They prefer hunting at night, but are also active during dawn and dusk, and daytime hours. They rarely haul their kills into trees, which is because they lack competition and the relative abundance of prey. Since leopards are the apex predators in Srilanka they don't need to protect their prey unlike in India"

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Mevan Piyasena
"Mahasilawa male" Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Andrea & Antonella Ferrari
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

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"Precious! Srilankan Leopard Cub, Yala National Park. July 2013"

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[Tshokwane]

Prasanna Ambigaibagan Nature & Wildlife Photography:
Prince "Y" @ Willpattu National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Mevan Piyasena
"Majestically on white sand dunes of wilpattu..photographed on recently concluded photo tour"

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[Ngala]

Photo and information credits: Andrea & Antonella Ferrari
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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[Ngala]

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"Giants of Yala"

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