The African Leopard
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The African leopard is really magnificent and is my favorite animal of all time. We used to have some on our mountain and in the surrounding area when we were living on a farm. I never saw any, but my family members did and we would always joke around with people when we go hiking on our mountain or in places where there were leopards that if you weighed less than 50 kg's you need to be careful because that is the weight range the leopards normally go for.
African leopards actually eat anything from as small as dung beetles to something as big as an Eland which weights about 400 kg's. They are really strong and good climbers so that they can drag carcasses into trees to keep them out of reach form other scavengers and carnivores. It is interesting to me that they are the second biggest cat, with lions being the first, and they can climb trees way better than lions.
African leopards are found in most of Africa, but are spread sparsely because of human population. They are very adaptable so they can live in almost any habitat, except in sandy desserts. They are also solitary creatures that are very territorial, protecting their territory from other leopards with violence when necessary. They are seen with other leopards only when mating and normally only a male and female, or when a female is raising a cub. They have 2-3 cubs, sometimes more and the cubs can stay with the mother for about 2 years before they go their own way.
The reason they are my favorite animal is because of their beauty and strength.
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I agree they are beutiful
That's some raw power!
We have some truly beautiful creatures here in South Africa. I don't ever want to change South Africa for any other country on the world.
Very true, I love the landscape, it is just a shame that everything else is deteriorating.
That's define deadly beautiful.
You said it.
Great post !!! Great Picture of Leopard ... be animal lover...
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Hello. For me it's one of my favorite animals, it's one of the fastest animals on earth, greeting
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Great post
Thanks.
They are so beautiful, I also love lions, even more, are there lions in your surrounding? :)
Unfortunately there aren't any, they were all killed a few hundred years ago, but if they weren't, there would be a lot of them. A few hundred km's north there are lions though. Have you ever seen them in the wild?
Oh, that's great, no, I would really like to see them, specially in Africa, but now I have to be satisfield watching them on youtube :)
The leopard is one of my favorite animals!
They are really awesome!