The Amur Leopard

The Amur leopard is a true beauty with her amber, caramel, brown, dark cream and golden pelt with coal-colored spots and gray-blue eyes. She has a white chest and belly with a halo of cream around it.

Amur leopards usually live beside a river basin. Mates live close together, their territories sometimes overlapping slightly. Depending on age and sex, the size of an Amur leopard's territory can vary from 19–120 sq miles.

The Amur leopard can leap more than 19 feet horizontally and over nine feet vertically. Along with powerful jaws and sharp claws, these qualities help the Amur leopard hunt her prey. In the Ussuri region Amur leopards prey on sika deer, musk deer, Manchurian wapiti, moose, roe, mice, badger, fowl, raccoon dogs, hare and wild pig. In Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve Amur leopards hunt Eurasian black bears that are less than two years old and roe deer.

The Amur leopard is almost extinct. There is thought to be only 40 Amur leopards left in the world. Help save these beautiful cats survive by joining anti-poaching programs like WWF's (http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/amur_leopard2/#help). If people don't start stopping Amur leopard poaching and hunting, soon, these amazing animals will become extinct.

“Please help me.”

-KittyLover8
© 2012

Amur Leopard

The Amur leopard is very sweet and gentle.
She hides behind some bushes, and then she
leaps on a sika deer. She bites its neck, and
then she eats hurriedly. Now she's tired so she sleeps
in her den.The next morning she looks at
a fish in the pond then swipe! She catches
it then she eats.




-superPOWerhorse
© 2011