Archive for the 'Leopard' category

After presenting you images of many wild animals, here come those we were specially coming to meet in South Africa: Leopards.

Young male Leopard in a tree
He was eating an impala up there


Young male Leopard in a tree
His name is Matimba and he still hunts with Safari, his mother


Lying leopard, yawning
Impressive display of teethes
[Specially for Yves, the dentist]


Lying leopard, yawning
Photo without due respect to the power of the predator…


Portrait of a leopard


Female leopard in a tree
What else is to do when…
the model has a bad/ugly/wounded eye,
the model does not want to stay in a good light,
you have no time to move?
(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

The WWF announced that hunters in Eastern Russia recently killed one female of the critically endangered species of Amur Leopard. The animal was shot and them beaten to death with one blunt object apparently. She was one of the last seven (7) female animals still living of that species. The end is approaching fast for them.

Sources: the Register, New Scientist, Futura-Sciences & AFP.

This is not every day that in the midst of announcements of more disappeared species we learn of the apparition of one of them. These days, the news of a species discovery is flowing through the ranks of nature scientists. The clouded leopard of Borneo is now considered as separate from the the other feline species of South-East Asia.

Nevertheless, this animal also enters the list of endangered species with only a few thousands of them living in the primary forests of Borneo, and thus exposed to the immediate reduction in size of their habitat.

Sources: LiveScience, Neatorama.

PS : il ne faut pas être surpris de voir les deux noms de panthère et léopard associés, il s’agit vraiment de deux terminologies essentiellement échangeables pour la même famille d’animaux.

As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.

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The most difficult part of this safari, the leopard was tough to find, nearly impossible to photograph (several days without a single observation before driving more than ten kilometers to find one single animal, but a nice animal indeed!)

Leopard

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