#javan leopard cat

[tigerleopardlion]

With short legs, a broad head, and short tail, Javan leopard cats have a powerful build, weighing up to 26 pounds. In order to catch its favorite meal, the Javan leopard cat will not only swim and dive after its prey, but will also try to scoop fish out of the water with its paws. While the bulk of this cat’s diet is fish, it will also take other aquatic prey like crustaceans and frogs, as well as terrestrial animals such as rodents, small wild pigs, and poultry.

Javan Leopard Cat | Joel Sartore

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Javan Leopard "Pelangi"

Pairi Daiza - Belgium

📸 by @mandennophotography

[rinusuarez]

New species unveiled: The Javan Leopard. To receive the infographic, subscribe to the club. Link here: Unveiling Club

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Javan Leopard - Pairi Daiza by Mandenno Photography

[chaetocercus]

oooh snow leopard sounwave tracks really well, they're so well-camouflaged it's crazy!

but since i love wildcats i'm going to chuck some at you lmao

andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) - LITTLE guy.

whose face feels very soundwavey to me for some reason

and for a more familiar face- clouded leopard (shown here is Neofelis nebulosa, the mainland sp, but there's also the Sunda sp N. diardi)

i love,,, cats

Since your Falconer Soundwave sees his co workers as animals, wouldn’t it be funny if Ravage is actually also a regular person but he views her as a cat like everyone else? Lol just a silly thought 💗

I thought this was pretty cute so I whipped up a quick human Ravage design just for this 😌 is it canon to the Falconer Soundwave au? Ehhhh, I mean probably not? Idk yet. Or maybe it’s that Soundwave sees Ravage as a person though she’s really a cat, and then other people as animals 🙄 this boy is weird as always… also I wasn’t gonna draw all the spots on panther Ravage ain’t no way. I’d say Soundwave is like the snow leopard to Ravage’s panther leopard 🐆 (or ravage’s jaguar, I haven’t decided between the two yet)

[reasonsforhope]

"A 2019 sighting by five witnesses indicates that the long-extinct Javan tiger may still be alive, a new study suggests.

A single strand of hair recovered from that encounter is a close genetic match to hair from a Javan tiger pelt from 1930 kept at a museum, the study shows.

“Through this research, we have determined that the Javan tiger still exists in the wild,” says Wirdateti, a government researcher and lead author of the study.

The Javan tiger was believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared as such in 2008...

Ripi Yanuar Fajar and his four friends say they’ll never forget that evening after Indonesia’s Independence Day celebration in 2019 when they encountered a big cat roaming a community plantation in Sukabumi, West Java province.

Immediately after the brief encounter, Ripi, who happens to be a local conservationist, reached out to Kalih Raksasewu, a researcher at the country’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), saying he and his friends had seen either a Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas), a critically endangered animal, or a Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica), a subspecies believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared so in 2008.

About 10 days later, Kalih visited the site of the encounter with Ripi and his friends. There, Kalih found a strand of hair snagged on a plantation fence that the unknown creature was believed to have jumped over. She also recorded footprints and claw marks that she thought resembled those of a tiger.

Kalih then sent the hair sample and other records to the West Java provincial conservation agency, or BKSDA, for further investigation. She also sent a formal letter to the provincial government to follow up on the investigation request. The matter eventually landed at BRIN, where a team of researchers ran genetic analyses to compare the single strand of hair with known samples of other tiger subspecies, such as the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and a nearly century-old Javan tiger pelt kept at a museum in the West Java city of Bogor.

“After going through various process of laboratory tests, the results showed that the hair sample had 97.8% similarities to the Javan tiger,” Wirdateti, a researcher with BRIN’s Biosystemic and Evolutionary Research Center, said at an online discussion hosted by Mongabay Indonesia on March 28.

The discussion centered on a study published March 21 in the journal Oryx in which Wirdateti and colleagues presented their findings that suggested that the long-extinct Javan tiger may somehow — miraculously — still be prowling parts of one of the most densely populated islands on Earth.

Their testing compared the Sukabumi hair sample with hair from the museum specimen collected in 1930, as well as with other tigers, Javan leopards and several sequences from GenBank, a publicly accessible database of genetic sequences overseen by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

The study noted that the supposed tiger hair had a sequence similarity of 97.06% with Sumatran tigers and 96.87% with Bengal tigers. Wirdateti also conducted additional interviews with Ripi and his friends about the encounter they’d had.

“I wanted to emphasize that this wasn’t just about finding a strand of hair, but an encounter with the Javan tiger in which five people saw it,” Kalih said.

“There’s still a possibility that the Javan tiger is in the Sukabumi forest,” she added. “If it’s coming down to the village or community plantation, it could be because its habitat has been disturbed. In 2019, when the hair was found, the Sukabumi region had been affected by drought for almost a year.” ...

Didik Raharyono, a Javan tiger expert who wasn’t involved in the study but has conducted voluntary expeditions with local wildlife awareness groups since 1997, said the number of previous reported sightings coupled with the new scientific findings must be taken seriously. He called on the environment ministry to draft and issue a policy on measures to find and conserve the Javan tiger.

“What’s most important is the next steps that we take in the future,” Didik said."

-via Mongabay, April 4, 2024

[zootoo]

Javan Leopard - Pairi Daiza - Belgium by Mandenno Photography

[lovelyllamasblog]

Disney Palace Pets: Pet Breeds

(This is purely for fun. I had nothing better to do. Don't judge me. These are also purely my headcanons.)

Snow White

Berry: Dwarf Hotot Rabbit Sweetie: Deutches Classic Pony (German Classic Pony) Muffin: Poodle Honeycake: German Rex Thistleblossom: European Hedgehog Madame Hamilot: White Winter Dwarf Hamster

Cinderella

Pumpkin: Poodle Bibbidy: French Saddle Pony Slipper: Persian Brie: Fancy Mouse Midnight: European Wildcat Le Grande: Corgi

Aurora

Dreamy: Birman Bloom: Poney Landais Nuzzles: Red Fox Fern: Long-eared Owl Macaron: English Cocker Spaniel Ash: European Dragon Chipper: Siberian Chipmunk

Ariel

Treasure: Norwegian Forest Cat Seashell: Danish Sport Pony Matey: Faroese Sheepdog Sandy Pearl: Hooded Seal Otto: Eurasian Otter Waddles: Atlantic Puffin

Belle

Teacup: King Charles Spaniel Petit: Auvergne Horse Rouge: Chartreux Booksy: Lop Eared Rabbit Page: Rambouillet Sheep Lacy: Poodle

Jasmine

Sultan: Belgian Tiger Lapis: Arabian Horse Taj: Asian Elephant Nyle: Capuchin Monkey Stripes: Plains Zebra Nola: Nile Hippo Sandstorm: Asiatic Cheetah

Pocahontas

Windflower: North American Raccoon Pounce: Bobcat River: Grey Wolf Brook: The Pony of the Americas

Mulan

Blossom: Great Panda Lychee: Guoxia Plumdrop: Siamese Snowpaws: Snow Leopard Alora: Javan Rhino Chai: Red Panda

Tiana

Lily: Ragdoll Bayou: American Shetland Pony Birdadette: Song Sparrow Olive: Boston Terrier

Rapunzel

Blondie: Deutsche Reitpony (German Riding Pony) Summer: German Longhair Cat Meadow: Skunk Daisy: Maltese Gleam: European Fallow Deer Sundrop: Peacock Truffles: Angeln Saddleback Pig Cubbie: Eurasian Brown Bear

[fatehbaz]

we’rent there cheetahs in turkey? cf gobleki tepe ... the map seems off

Yea. Cheetahs, tigers, lions, and leopards were all living on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean within the political borders of modern-day Turkey and in the region around Gobekli Tepe, not just 12,000-ish years ago during the first architecture construction at the site, but also within the past 100 years. All of these cats coexisted in Mesopotamia, Persia, and Anatolia for essentially, all of human history. Both tigers and lions still lived in “Europe” on the northern shores of the Black Sea (in modern-day Ukraine) and in the Caucasus during the Middle Ages, with tigers still appearing near Crimea in the 1700s. Lions still lived in Mesopotamia around 1920, cheetahs still lived in Palestine around 1945, and tigers still lived in Turkey in the 1970s. In Kurdish lands, near the eastern political borders of Turkey, all 4 big cats lived nearly alongside each other until the 20th century.

And yea, that wasn’t a great map of historic cheetah range (I’m really disappointed with bad/vague distribution maps), but there are other maps of historical big cat distribution that I could recommend.

From Gobekli Tepe:

Kinda looks like a big cat?

Cheetahs were apparently still living in the eastern Mediterranean, in the Sinai of Palestine, until at least 1945. They were still present in Mesopotamia until at least 1925, when the cats were reported south of Baghdad. They may have gone extinct within Turkish political borders in the 1800s, but this would’ve been difficult to confirm because of eastern Turkey’s mountainous terrain. (Cheetahs also survived in Afghanistan, Yemen, Oman into the 1970s.) Cheetahs in Anatolia ostensibly would’ve been the Asiatic subspecies, Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, which is the same subspecies currently living in Iran.

Tigers still lived in Kurdish lands and within Turkey’s borders into the 1970s. The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata). Tigers were living in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia until the 1940s, apparently. They were also reported living near Crimea, Sochi, and the shores of the Black Sea during the 1700s. This subspecies, the Caspian tiger, seemed to utilize the wooded vegetation of the riparian corridors along the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which provided suitable habitat and cover for the tigers to disperse across the great deserts of Central Asia between Lake Balkash and the Caspian. Relative to those deserts, the slopes of the Caucasus and the lush forests of Iranian shores of the Caspian (not too different from temperate rainforest) are much more vegetated. (There were 9 tiger subspecies living during recent centuries. Five are alive in the wild: Malayan, Bengal, Sumatran, Indochinese, and Siberian. One might be extinct in the wild: South China. Three are extinct: Bali, Javan, and Caspian.)

Leopards apparently still survive within Turkey’s borders, in Kurdistan. The subspecies is Panthera pardus saxicolor, the leopard of Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Persia. The same subspecies still lives nearby in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, and Persia.

Another leopard subspecies, Panthera pardus nimur, still lives in the Arabian peninsula and was historically present in Palestine, the Sinai, and the eastern Mediterranean shore close to Anatolia.

Lions apparently went extinct within Turkish borders in the late 1800s, but they were still recorded in nearby Mesopotamia until the First World War, when a lion was famously killed in Iraq in 1918. Lions were present in Persia until at least 1944, when a dead lion was found in Iranian Khuzestan. Lions were also present in Thessalonika and the Greek shores of the Aegean until at least 300 AD. (According to records from that time, an also according to archaeological dating of lion remains.) It’s likely that lions lived in Iberia (and Italy?) until 1500 BC or so. (Then again, maybe not surprising, since the cat is adaptable enough that lions also lived alongside humans in North America only a few thousand years ago, too. The lions in North America were even, possibly, the same species as the modern extant lion, Panthera leo atrox. But sometimes the American lion is designated as its own species, Panthera atrox.)

Persian cheetah:

Caspian tiger:

Persian and Arabian leopard:

Distribution of Persian leopard subspecies:

Distribution of Arabian leopard subspecies:

Asiatic lion:

“Modern” lion (Panthera leo) during recent millennia in Holocene:

Lion during Pleistocene:

Even caracals mingled with the other cats in Anatolia:

The ancient Near East was a meeting place, and very biodiverse.

The “Fertile Crescent” really was fertile. Even Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) appear to have been present in Mesopotamia and near Kurdistan in ancient times during the ascent of Assyria.

(Isn’t it thought-provoking how woolly mammoths still survived on Wrangell Island 9000 years after the first construction at Gobekli Tepe; mammoths still alive 1000 years after the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt?)

Something I like to think about: Because of the habitat association of lions, how they’re always photographed against a landscape of intermittent woodland and grassland, I think it might be a little easier to picture lions living in Greece, Anatolia, and the Mediterranean shores of Europe in recent millennia because of the mild climate and how the chaparral ecology is not too unlike savanna or scrub. But to imagine lions and tigers and leopards living in the steppes of Ukraine, the snowy northern slopes of the Caucasus, and the shores of the Black Sea in recent centuries? Cool.

[bigcatswildlife]

A beautiful 😍 young African Leopard avoiding a pride of Lions.

📷 Photo by @jimmystlee

The 8 Leopard subspecies conservation status are listed below.

It shows the real threat Leopards & big cats on a broader sense & why they need our support.

Critically Endangered,

Amur Leopard.

Javan Leopard.

Arabian Leopard.

Endangered,

North Chinese Leopard.

Sri Lankan Leopard.

Vulnerable,

Indochinese Leopard.

Near Threatened,

African Leopard.

Indian Leopard.

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[venusian-tears]

𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 / 𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐

Why hello there, my name is Carissa, long for Cari, and short for nothing. I have started blogs in the past, none have ever reached their maximum potential, mainly because I'm overall sluggish and forget to write my opinions and feelings down on a virtual space for all to see. I have wanted ONE stable place to write, I mean... I have in the past, including my journal that is filled to the brim with my once in a blue moon mental breakdowns (lol jk), but in all seriousness, I love writing. I perhaps may not be the best writer, but I do know I write better than I do speaking vocally. So here is my first written post on moonsoakedgirl.tumblr.com (inspired by 'Artemis Girl' by Nikita Gill), where I will share my thoughts on numerous amount of topics, environmental issues, astrology, poetry, photography, and pretty much anything else my little heart desires.

So that was a minor introduction, you're welcome. NOW we will be getting into the real topic of this post which is wildlife, both on land and sea, and the effects of poaching. This so much isn't a random topic but as my mental chatter was driving me to an insane brink at 3:14 am about how much I love animals. It all started with the first thought that it is such a turn off when guys/girls go hunting, whether it be deer, bears, fish, whatever. I find it revolting that a human could feel any other emotion besides sadness when looking at a dead animal, nevertheless CAUSING the death of that animal. Then it got me thinking. Why do humans think that everything that was put on this earth is for their amusement, satisfaction, entertainment? Animals are not humanmade. Why do we believe that we have the natural born right to own them, so much so we can decide what to do with their lives? Now I know you're thinking of dogs, cats, and any other domestic related pet but this isn't about them. Did you know that "Leatherback Sea Turtles, Currently, all seven species of marine turtles are in danger of becoming extinct, Tigers, Javan Rhinoceros, Amur Leopards and Northern Sportive Lemurs" are all going extinct rather rapidly due to poaching. Some of the most well-known animals... all going extinct. Not to mention marine life that is also highly becoming endangered such as the blue whale, sea lions, hammerhead shark, fin whale, Hector's dolphin, and so many more. Now the reason for the high threat of these animals is mainly due to the need for their skin or for meal purposes. Which in hindsight, is ridiculous because what the hell do you need a tiger skin for? How will it remotely benefit you in the long run, it most certainly won't help you escape from death so why the hell are you doing it. These are living beings. They breathe, they hunt to survive, they procreate, they are just trying to live their lives... literally.

Okay, I think I am done with my rant, for now, I might go on another tangent tomorrow or soon. I would like to recommend some documentaries below if you are more interested in learning about wildlife endangerment!!! Also, I will link below websites in which you can donate to help protect them :)

Documentaries: BlackFish The Blue Planet The Ivory Game Planet Earth Mission Blue

Links to Donate: https://defenders.org/ http://wwf.panda.org/ https://www.sierraclub.org/home https://earthjustice.org/action

[eschakra]

My Legion 5 Sad Cat Club

-Sumatran-wide tiger survey

-West Sumatra tiger occupancy

-GPS collar sumatran tiger monitoring

-Sumatran tiger release programs

-Javan Leopard Network

-Muria leopard occupancy

-Muria landscape fragmentation and land cover change prediction

-Mount Sawal expedition

-Sanggabuana conservation foundation

-Cikepuh camera trap survey

-Thesis data collection

Been accross 10 different province within a month, we are on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[cingedash]

ok I just saw this and I love leopards so I’m legally required to info dump about leopards. DISCLAIMER: mostly I’m talking about African leopards as I’m not very familiar with the other subspecies but they are all fairly similar just the comparisons will be different.

Okay here we go:

- leopards claws are specialised in a way that allows them to climb trees facing both forwards and backwards

- leopards are one of the strongest mammals for their size and are capable of carrying around 3-4 times their own body weight vertically up trees

- leopards carry and hang their prey in trees in order to protect it from lions and hyenas

- like all big cats (and most African wildlife) a leopards coat is designed to help it blend in with its environment

- they need this camouflage as leopards hunt in a very similar way to, say, cheetahs. They will stalk their prey and get close enough to them that they won’t have to waste energy running them down

- how they differ to cheetahs is that, unlike a cheetah who will run the last distance to their prey, a leopard will often jump it - from a crouched start they can leap 6 meters (20ft) horizontally and 3 meters (10ft) vertically

- while a leopard will often flee from a large pack of hyenas or a pride of lions they are in fact one of the most capable of the big (African) cats in terms of fighting. A lion will usually only use its front claws and teeth to fight, a cheetah is just all around terrible at fighting a target that isn’t running away, whereas a leopard is know to fight with all four claws plus teeth at the same time - and due to rotting animal flesh on their teeth and claws leopard wounds will often become infected quickly and fatally.

- a leopards favourite type of meat baboon but they are opportunists and will go for just about anything, including fish

- There are currently 9 subspecies of leopards recognised by the AWF, these are: African, Indian, Javan, Amur, Arabian, North Chinese, Indochinese, Persian/Caucasian, and Sri Lankan

- Leopards coats differ from leopard to leopard, similar to wild dogs

- Leopards, unlike the other African big cats, basically cannot be made to be your friend :(. this is because of their solitary and opportunistic life and their brain is hardwired to see anything that isn’t a leopard as potential food. Leopard cubs do not have this tendency though so they can seem all sweet but one day they will turn against you

- they are extremely solitary animals, the most solitary of the African big cats, and have very wide hunting ranges that they, well, hunt in. These ranges are often marked by claw marks or urine

- male leopards are significantly bigger than female and have far bigger ranges that often meet with several female ranges

- leopard cubs first eat meet at about 6-7 weeks old but don’t stop suckling until about 2-3 months, they will stay with the mother for about 2 years. The father does not help the mother raise the children

- leopard hunt during the night hours in order to catch their prey off guard and aid their camouflage as baboons have very good eyesight (which is similar to humans in that they can see colour, but equivalent to a 8x zoom magnifier if a pair of binoculars). However, leopards can also be seen active during the day

- a leopards can make purring and meowing sounds like a house cat but their main call is often compared to that of a saw cutting through wood

- leopards often reach speeds of up to 56km/h (35mph) but when hungry can reach 64km/h (40mph) - slow compared to other big cats.

- leopards like most felines have retractable claws to help them move more quietly. Notably cheetahs do not have these because they are way too specialised for running really fast

- leopards are cool

- they are my favourite animal

- cheetahs are way too specialised for their own good

[xidnaf]

the signs as animals

arist: south african cheetah

aries: american black bear

argo: kordofan giraffe

arga: griffon vulture

arittanius: wildebeest

arittarius: yak

arpio: bowhead whale

arpia: african elephant

arlo: horse

aro: barn owl

ara: tiger

arza: white rhinoceros

aricorn: spider monkey

ariborn: ring-tailed lemur

arnius: tabby cat

arius: megabat

asci: rock dove

asces: pied crow

armino: lion

armini: eurasian wolf

arcer: gerbil

arcen: newt

arus: bush-tailed porcupine

arun: philippine forest rat

taurrist: asiatic cheetah

taurries: asian black bear

taurgo: nubian giraffe

taurga: cinereous vulture

taurittanius: roan

taurittarius: southern marsupial mole

taurpio: right whale

taurpia: asian elephant

taurlo: sea eagle

tauro: grass owl

taurra: sheep

taurza: sumatran rhinoceros

tauricorn: vervet monkey

tauriborn: aye-aye

taurnius: jungle cat

taurrius: flying fox

taursci: trocaz pigeon

taursces: american crow

taurmino: kit fox

taurmini: tundra wolf

taurcer: guinea pig

taurcen: seal

taurus: crested porcupine

taurun: nile rat

gemrist: north american cougar

gemries: atlas bear

gemgo: west african giraffe

gemga: white-rumped vulture

gemittanius: waterbuck

gemittarius: northern marsupial mole

gempio: blue whale

gempia: blue-ringed octopus

gemlo: snake-eagle

gemo: sooty owl

gemra: argali

gemza: black rhinoceros

gemicorn: proboscis monkey

gemiborn: sifaka

gemnius: european wildcat

gemrius: egyptian fruit bat

gemsci: laurel pigeon

gemsces: cape crow

gemmino: red fox

gemini: arabian wolf

gemcer: dove

gemcen: house mouse

gemus: long-tailed porcupine

gemun: moluccan prehensile-tailed rat

canrist: florida panther

canries: blue bear

cango: reticulated giraffe

canga: black vulture

canittanius: eland

canittarius: golden mole

canpio: bryde’s whale

canpia: dumbo octopus

canlo: black-chested buzzard-eagle

cano: itombwe owl

canra: mouflon

canza: indian rhinoceros

canicorn: pygmy marmoset

caniborn: mouse lemur

canius: black-footed cat

canrius: california leaf-nosed bat

cansci: hill pigeon

cansces: hooded crow

canmino: cape fox

canmini: steppe wolf

cancer: humming bird

cancen: mayor’s moue

canus: bristle-spined rat

canun: bulldog rat

lerist: african leopard

leries: eurasian brown bear

lego: angolan giraffe

lega: turkey vulture

leittanius: gerenuk

leittarius: eurasian beaver

lepio: fin whale

lepia: mimic octopus

lelo: black solitary eagle

leo: bay owl

lera: urial

leza: nile hippopotamus

leicorn: rhesus macaque

leiborn: cockatiel

lenius: sand cat

lerius: hondurian white bat

lesci: snow pigeon

lesces: somali crow

lemino: arctic fox

lemini: mongolian wolf

lecer: flying squirrel

lecen: sikkim mouse

leus: prehensile-tailed porcupine

leun: kerala rat

virrist: javan leopard

virries: eurasian brown bear

virgo: south african giraffe

virga: california condor

virittanius: steenbok

virittarius: north american beaver

virpio: see whale

virpia: blanket octopus

virlo: crested eagle

viro: scops owl

virra: bighorn sheep

virza: east african hippopotamus

viricorn: gibbon

viriborn: parrotlet

virnius: chinese mountain cat

virrius: big brown cat

virsci: specled pigeon

virsces: flores crow

virmino: fennec fox

virmini: dingo

vircer: unstriped ground squirrel

vircen: volcano mouse

virus: electric eel

virun: himilayan field rat

librist: northern goshawk

libries: grizzly bear

libgo: masai giraffe

libga: greater flamingo

libittanius: nyala

libittarius: star-nosed mole

lipio: chilean dolphin

lipia: coconut octopus

liblo: harpy eagle

libo: screech owl

libra: thinhorn sheep

libza: cape hippopotamus

libicorn: bornean orangutan

libiborn: caique

libnius: amazon weasel

librius: dwarf epaulettes fruit bat

libsci: wood pigeon

libsces: bismark crow

limino: grey fox

limini: dog

libcer: indian palm squirrel

libcen: indian field mouse

libus: hog-nosed skunk

libun: sunburned rat

scorrist: gray-bellied hawk

scorries: east siberian brown bear

scorgo: thornicroft’s giraffe

scorga: lesser flamingo

scorittanius: klipspringer

scorittarius: hairy-tailed mole

scorpio: arabian dolphin

scorpia: giant squid

scorlo: papuan eagle

scoro: snowy owl

scorra: snow sheep

scorza: west african hippopotamus

scoricorn: sumatran orangutan

scoriborn: lorikeet

scornius: mountain weasel

scorrius: split-nosed bat

scorsci: comoros olive pigeon

scorsces: white-necked crow

scormino: swift fox

scormini: tibetan wolf

scorcer: eastern grey squirrel

scorcen: ryukyu mouse

scorus: hooded skunk

scorun: aceh rat

sagirist: red-chested goshawk

sagiries: syrian brown bear

sagigo: pig

sagiga: chilean flamingo

sagiittanius: kudu

sagiittarius: eastern mole

sagipio: long-beaked dolphin

sagipia: colossal squid

sagilo: balck eagle

sagio: great horned owl

sagira: red kangaroo

sagiza: angola hippopotamus

sagiicorn: tapanuli orangutan

sagiiborn: parakeet

saginius: steppe polecat

sagirius: brown long-eared bat

sagisci: white-naped pigeon

sagisces: jungle crow

sagimino: plains bison

sagimini: japanese wolf

sagicer: colorado chipmunk

sagicen: cook’s mouse

sagius: striped skunk

sagiun: snake

capririst: besra

capriries: giant panda

caprigo: chicken

capriga: jame’s flamingo

capriittanius: lechwe

capriittarius: gansu mole

capripio: killer whale

capripia: humboldt squid

caprilo: spotted eagle

caprio: eagle owl

caprira: eastern grey kangaroo

capriza: north american ostrich

capriicorn: eastern gorilla

capriiborn: pianos parrot

caprinius: long-tailed weasel

capririus: mediterranean horseshoe bat

caprisci: stork

caprisces: fish crow

caprimino: wood bison

caprimini: indian wolf

capricer: grey-collard chipmun

capricen: cypriot mouse

caprius: spotted skunk

capriun: spider

aquarist: long-tailed hawk

aquaries: sloth bear

aquago: red junglefowl

aquaga: andean flamingo

aquittanius: springbok

aquittarius: long-tailed mole

aquapio: pilot whale

aquapia: japanese flying squid

aqualo: tawny eagle

aquo: fish owl

aquara: western grey kangaroo

aquaza: masai ostrich

aquicorn: western gorilla

aquiborn: cockatoo

aquanius: yellow-bellied weasel

aquarius: raccoon

aquasci: goose

aquasces: house crow

aquamino: european bison

aquamini: arctic wolf

aquacer: gray-footed chipmunk

aquacen: steppe mouse

aqus: fattail scorpion

aqun: alligator

pirist: chanting goshawk

piries: polar bear

pigo: cow

piga: american flamingo

piittanius: sable antelope

piittarius: japanese shrew mole

pipio: houglass dolphin

pipia: vampire squid

pilo: camel

pio: spotted wood owl

pira: antilopine kangaroo

piza: arabian ostrich

piicorn: chimpanzee

piiborn: conure

pinius: european mink

pirius: koalas

pisci: duck

pisces: palm crow

pimino: water buffalo

pimini: baffin island wolf

picer: uinta chipmunk

picen: meerkat

pius: pandinus

piun: crocodile

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The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera, a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia, and on the Indian subcontinent to Southeast and East Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because leopard populations are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, and are declining in large parts of the global range

Compared to other wild cats, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. Its fur is marked with rosettes. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar (Panthera onca), but has a smaller, lighter physique, and its rosettes are generally smaller, more densely packed and without central spots. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic are known as black panthers. The #leopard is distinguished by its well-camouflaged fur, opportunistic hunting behaviour, broad diet, strength, and its ability to adapt to a variety of habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe, including arid and montane areas. It can run at speeds of up to 58 km/h (36 mph)

In 2017, The Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group recognized the following eight subspecies as valid taxa:

🐆 African leopard (P. p. pardus) (Linnaeus, 1758)

- It is the most widespread leopard subspecies and is native to most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

🐆 Indian leopard (P. p. fusca) (Meyer, 1794)

- It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Myanmar and southern Tibet.

🐆 Javan leopard (P. p. melas) (Cuvier, 1809)

- It is native to Java in Indonesia and is considered Critically Endangered.

🐆 Arabian leopard (P. p. nimr) (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1830)

🐆 P. p. tulliana (Valenciennes, 1856)

🐆 Amur leopard (P. p. orientalis) (Schlegel, 1857)

🐆 Indochinese leopard (P. p. delacouri) Pocock, 1930

🐆 Sri Lankan leopard (P. p. kotiya) Deraniyagala, 1956

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The Magnificent Seven Endangered Wild Cats

The Magnificent Seven Endangered Wild Cats

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