Leopard

Where do leopards live?

These big cats tend to favor rocky landscapes with dense bush and riverine forests, but they have also shown to be highly adaptable to many places in both warm and cold climates.

 They occur in a wide range of habitats, from deserts and semi-desert regions of southern Africa to arid regions of North Africa to savanna grasslands of East and southern Africa to mountainous environments on Mt. Kenya to the rainforests of West and Central Africa and even in urban and suburban parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

What are leopards?

These large carnivores are powerfully built with long bodies, relatively short legs, and a broad head. There are nine subspecies of leopard

Population. At best, only an estimated 15,000 jaguars remain in the wild. Bi-national conservation efforts have been successful at protecting a small population of 80 to 120 cats in the remote mountains of Sonora, Mexico bordering Arizona.