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The Leopard Cat is a carnivore and feeds primarily on small animals. Some of their favorite foods are rats, mice, rabbits, hares, birds, lizards, and even bats. Across their range, different cats have different diets. Cats in some areas feed on more rats and mice while cats in other areas hunt a wider variety of prey. Kumar, P.; Chandel, S.; Kumar, V.; Sankhyan, V. (2017). "Leopard–Human Conflict Led Casualties and Conservation Awareness Campaign in Shivalik Hills of Northern India". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences. 87 (3): 893−898. doi: 10.1007/s40011-015-0653-3. S2CID 25553974.

Marathi film 'Ajoba' based on a leopard's fascinating journey, Urmila plays a wildlife biologist". 13 June 2013. Felis euptilura ( Elliot, 1871) based on two skins from Siberia. One was depicted in Gustav Radde's illustration cum description of a wild cat; the other was part of a collection at the Regent's Park Zoo. The ground colour of both was light brownish-yellow, strongly mixed with grey and covered with reddish-brown spots, head grey with a dark-red stripe across the cheek. [9] The initial binomial euptilura given by Elliott has been incorrectly changed to " euptilurus" by some later authors, but under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Article 31.2.1, nouns and noun phrases are not subject to gender agreement; at present, both terms appear in use, but only the spelling " euptilura" is correct. [10] Zafar-ul Islam, M.; Boug, A.; Judas, J.; As-Shehri, A. (2018). "Conservation challenges for the Arabian Leopard ( Panthera pardus nimr) in the Western Highlands of Arabia". Biodiversity. 19 (3–4): 188–197. doi: 10.1080/14888386.2018.1507008. S2CID 134163948. The Arabian leopard's fur varies from pale yellow to deep golden, tawny or grey and is patterned with rosettes. [6] Males have a total length of 182–203cm (72–80in) including 77–85cm (30–33in) long tails and weigh about 30kg (66lb); females are 160–192cm (63–76in) long including 67–79cm (26–31in) long tails and weigh around 20kg (44lb). [7] It is the smallest leopard subspecies. [8]

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Shepherd, C. R.; Nijman, V. (2008). The wild cat trade in Myanmar (PDF). Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-07-04 . Retrieved 2011-02-19. a b c Stein, A.B.; Athreya, V.; Gerngross, P.; Balme, G.; Henschel, P.; Karanth, U.; Miquelle, D.; Rostro, S.; Kamler, J.F. & Laguardia, A. (2016). " Panthera pardus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T15954A102421779.

Harihar, A.; Pandav, B.; Goyal, S. P. (2011). "Responses of leopard Panthera pardus to the recovery of a tiger Panthera tigris population". Journal of Applied Ecology. 48 (3): 806–814. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01981.x. a b c Stein, A.B.; Athreya, V.; Gerngross, P.; Balme, G.; Henschel, P.; Karanth, U.; Miquelle, D.; Rostro, S.; Kamler, J.F. & Laguardia, A. (2016). " Panthera pardus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T15954A160698029.a b Chua, M. A. H.; Sivasothi, N.; Meier, R. (2016). "Population density, spatiotemporal use and diet of the leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis) in a human-modified succession forest landscape of Singapore". Mammal Research. 61 (2): 99–108. doi: 10.1007/s13364-015-0259-4. S2CID 14269188. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17 . Retrieved 2019-02-15. People Couldn't Ace This Quiz Think You Can? Take Our A-Z-Animals Leopards Quiz #1 Baby Leopards Are Born Without Spots Boitani, L. (1984). Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mammals. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Books. ISBN 978-0-671-42805-1. At least ten wild leopards were live-captured in Yemen since the early 1990s and sold to zoos; some have been placed in conservation breeding centers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. [20] Among the products sold in the tent city of Mina, Saudi Arabia after the Hajj of 2010, skins of Arabian leopards that were poached in Yemen were offered. [32]

As urban areas expanded, the natural habitats of leopards shrunk resulting in leopards venturing into urbanized areas due to easy access of domestic food sources. [69] Karnataka has a high number of such conflicts. [70] [71] Budd, J.; Leus, K. (2011). "The Arabian Leopard Panthera pardus nimr conservation breeding programme". Zoology in the Middle East. 54 (Supplement 3): 141–150. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2011.10648905. Protected parks or change in human behaviour: what will save the threatened leopards of Gujarat?". india.mongabay.com. 2018 . Retrieved 12 August 2018.International Code of Zoological Nomenclature". www.nhm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-12-26 . Retrieved 2017-03-07. Almost half of Karnataka 'lives' with leopards". The Hindu. 2015. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 15 February 2016. However, in some cases, the young ones will stay with their mother longer, up to four years. And even after they’ve found their own territory and are living on their own, sometimes young leopards will continue to occasionally pay their moms a visit. At least until she is caring for a new litter of cubs. #8 If You See a Group of Leopards, It’s Likely a Mother With Her Cubs

There was a small population in Israel's Negev desert, estimated at 20 individuals in the late 1970s. [21] Leopards were hunted until the early 1960s. By 2002, fewer than 11 isolated individuals were estimated to survive. Six males, three females and two unsexed individuals were identified in the country, based on genetic analysis of 268 scats collected. About five individuals were thought to survive in the Judaean Desert as of 2005. [22] The last wild leopard in the Negev desert was sighted near Sde Boker in 2007, which was in a poor and weak shape; and the last leopard in the northern Arabah Valley was sighted in 2010–11. [23] a b c d Li, G.; Davis, B. W.; Eizirik, E. & Murphy, W. J. (2016). "Phylogenomic evidence for ancient hybridization in the genomes of living cats (Felidae)". Genome Research. 26 (1): 1–11. doi: 10.1101/gr.186668.114. PMC 4691742. PMID 26518481. The first mammals are believed to have lived 208 million years ago — after the extinction of dinosaurs. The first carnivores came from animals known as miacoids about 60 million years ago. These tree dwellers were about the size of a domestic cat and had developed sharp crushing teeth. Miacoids are the oldest relative to the modern-day leopard.They also have populations in from India across southeast Asia, through China and into North and South Korea. Their distribution is not spotty or patchy, and Leopard Cats live across the entire regions discussed. Diet of the Leopard Cat Heptner, V. G. (1971). "[On the systematic position of the Amur forest cat and some other east Asian cats placed in Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792.]". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 50: 1720–1727. Uphyrkina, O.; Johnson, W. E.; Quigley, H.; Miquelle, D.; Marker, L.; Bush, M. & O'Brien, S. (2001). "Phylogenetics, genome diversity and origin of modern leopard, Panthera pardus" (PDF). Molecular Ecology. 10 (11): 2617–2633. doi: 10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01350.x. PMID 11883877. S2CID 304770. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-28 . Retrieved 2010-03-02. The Tsushima leopard cat is listed as Critically Endangered on the Japanese Red List of Endangered Species, and has been the focus of a conservation program funded by the Japanese government since 1995. [35] It is threatened by habitat loss, including from logging in the 1950s and 1960s, and a growing deer population which removes undergrowth that the Tsushima cat hunts for rodents in. The historical population has been split into two by the dividing of Tsushima island by a canal, and the southern population was thought extinct until a sighting in 2007. A recorded 122 individuals were killed by cars from 1992 to 2022. A captive breeding program has been initiated, but has not led to any successful reintroductions. [36]