Angry Eyes

He impressed me!
Taken in the zoo in Emmen.

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Contest #4 Wildlife

By LeeAnn Bies

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Genus: Panthera
Species: Panthera pardus

GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

Pantera pardus could at one time be found from British Isles to Japan and throughout most of Asia. Today they can still be found in Africa, except for the true deserts of Sahara and Kalahari, and some parts of Asia such as Sri Lanka. Leopards are more common in Eastern and Central Africa. Conversely, they are rare in Western and Northern Africa and most of Asia (Nowak, 1997; Sanderson, 1972).

Biogeographic Regions:
palearctic (native ); oriental (native ); ethiopian (native ).



Elevation
5638 m (high)
(18492.64 ft)

HABITAT

Leopards live in highly variable habitats. They feel just as secure in swampy tropical forests as in rugged mountains. They live in lowland forests, mountains, grasslands, brush country, and deserts. A corpse of a leopard was once found at an elevation of 5,630 meters on Kilimanjaro, and not frozen into the ice as some people had suggested (Guggisberg, 1975; Nowak, 1997).

These animals are found in the following types of habitat:
temperate ; tropical ; terrestrial .

Terrestrial Biomes:
desert or dune ; chaparral ; forest ; rainforest ; scrub forest ; mountains .