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

The Bobcat

Bobcats are about the size of a house cat; two feet tall and three to four feet long.

Bobcats are a subspecies of lynx, giving them their other name, red lynx. Bobcats are wonderful swimmers, like lynx are.

Bobcats are commonly found in deserts, prairies, swamplands, mountains, and around forests. The size of their territories very, depending on how old they are, their gender, and the distribution of prey. Bobcats prefer to make their homes in thickets, rock ledges, and hollow logs.

Bobcats eat anything from insects, birds, rabbits, hares, and rodents to deer.

Bobcats have long, reddish-silvery-brown fur coats with black tabby markings. They have golden-and-white muzzles and white bellies and chests with some cream, brown, and gold smudges here and there. They also have short bop tails.

-KittyLover8
© 2011