(I AM ANIMAL LOVER-1 ) WILD LEAPORD

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Leopards are incredibly beautiful and powerful animals. They are solitary creatures preferring to be loners of the cat world. Leopards leap gracefully and climb with a marvelous agility. Read this informative article to learn some interesting facts about leopards.

Leopards can breed year round. A female leopard gives birth to a litter of 2 to 5 cubs after a gestation period of approximately 3 months. She then nurses her young for the first 5 months. Female leopards give birth once every 2 years. Male cubs tend to develop faster than female cubs.

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The Sri Lankan leopard also called as Ceylon leopard is a subspecies native to Sri Lanka. The wild population estimated around 1000 individuals across the 65000 sq km in the island. Boasting the highest density of leopards anywhere in the world. Sri Lankan Panthera Pardus currently listed as endangered by the International Union for the Con- servation of Nature.


According to a BBC article Sri Lanka is also home to the biggest leopards in the world. These cats looked more like a jaguar. More powerful animal with more muscle and larger jaws. Main reasons is to grow this cat in to large size is less competition they are having from other lagers cats. Because of that they are at the top place in the food chain which help them to be the top predator. .
Initially, was believed that this is the only Panthera Pardus population to have evolved as the top predatory carnivore in its ecosystem


The Panthera Pardus spread in all habitats throughout the island. They can be found in most of the large national parks and in tropics rainforest, forest patches in the central hills. Panthera Pardus kotiya recorded in tea estates, grasslands, home gardens, pine and eucalyptus plantations. Even though leopards are everywhere spotting a leopard in a habitat apart from a national park is usually rare.
But in the forest patches in central Sri Lanka, Where tea plantations are close by leopards and people encounters are on the rise. Villagers in Hatton, Kotagala, Dickoya are reporting more leopards sightings.
Wilpattu national park happens to be the home for highest number of Panthera Pardus. Compared to Yala national park Wilpattu is a bigger in area and leopards are spread around. Yala National park has a very high rate of seeing a leopard. Because of the high leopards density that contracted in a small area.
Panthera Parduss in Yala National Park, where the big cats draped themselves decoratively over high branches and rolled around on dusty trails as tourists watched. But in Wilpattu, and pretty much everywhere else in the island nation, the Panthera Pardus kotiya is notoriously shy.

 

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