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Leopard facts Here are thirteen facts about leopards:
1. Leopards are the most successful and cunning among big cats.

2. Like most cats, leopards are solitary creatures that hunt mainly at night.

3. Leopards have a very beautiful coat with a tawny background and rosettes, that aids them in camouflage.

4. The Snow Leopard is a most remarkable cat that operates in extremely difficult terrain and climate conditions at the top of the world - the Himalayas.

5. The Clouded Leopard has the longest canines amongst cat species.

6. The Amur Leopard is one of the most endangered animals in the world.

7. The Bornean Clouded Leopard is one of the most significant newly discovered mammalian species.

8. Leopards are masters of stealth and extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild.

9. Pound for pound, leopards are the strongest among big cats.

10. Leopards are the best tree climbers amongst big cats and are capable of taking prey that is twice their body weight, up a tree.

11. Melanistic variants among leopards - black leopards - are known as panthers.

12. Leopards are territorial animals and regularly mark and defend their domain against intruders.

13. Maneating leopards always operate at night since unlike tigers they never lose their fear of man and only enter human territories in the cover of darkness - according to famous hunter turned conservationist Jim Corbett. This makes them very difficult to counteract. 
Leopards are amazing Big Cats. We think we might be part leopard because we are also masters of stealth!

April 10, 2008 at 3:11 AM 
beautiful creatures, and interesting facts. thanks

April 10, 2008 at 12:03 PM 
Humans have often mistaken me for a white leopard. I'm sure you can see the resemblance.

April 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM 
leopards are incredible. i love that photo too. i like to think i'm stealthy, but i think those leopards have me beat!

April 11, 2008 at 2:38 PM 
Beautiful photo and interesting facts.I learned alot ...Thanks :)

April 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM 
Those are very interesting facts about Leopards.

April 13, 2008 at 9:38 PM 
As always Omer, very interesting facts. Enjoyed reading it. We deal with the little cats and always great to read about the big ones.
 Moki said...

Very interesting. When I was really little I use to live close to a place called Marine World. Every year our class would go on a field trip, and my favorite part was always seeing the "big cats!"

April 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM 
Wow -- I didn't know most of that! You learn something new every day! Thanks for sharing!

April 22, 2008 at 9:41 AM Joe Hash said...


Great post about leopards. Although I think you got a fact mixed up with jaguars:

-The Jaguar, in a recent National Geographic special titled “In Search of the Jaguar,” was named pound for pound the strongest animal in the world.(emphasis added)

In addition to this, the jaguar also has the strongest bite force of any big cat.

May 2, 2008 at 1:14 PM 
Thanks for your observation Joe - Jaguars do have the greatest bite force among cats and they are quite strong but they are not the strongest cat - pound for pound leopards are extremely strong, carrying large prey animals both horizontally and vertically - clouded leopards in particularly are exceptional in the strength department. Peter Hathaway Capstick, the great hunter who had a close interaction with both Jaguars in the Amazon and Leopards in the African bush - testified to the superior strength of leopard among big cats per body weight. If you read Jim Corbett's accounts of the maneating leopards of Panar and Rudraprayag, you will be amazed by the unbelievable power of the leopard. Experts universally maintain that leopards can carry carcasses that are upto two to three times their body weight up a tree - for a three hundred pound Jaguar that would be equivalent of carrying around a nine hundred pound animal vertically - something quite hard to imagine!

May 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM 
i luv u guys :D

December 18, 2008 at 8:48 AM 
Thats right and 200lbs is only a leopards average weight,as for a full grown leopard i guarantee it can get as big as a 250lb Jaguar.Another thing thats a fact is a Jaguar has the hardest bite amongst big cats pound for pound.actually a female leopard can carry 3 times her weight up a tree while a male can haul 5 times his weight into a tree.A leopard is 10 times stronger than a human or feline around the same weight and the average human can lift twice their own weight so thats 2 tons in all that a leopard can drag around but not up into a tree

August 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM leopard said...

hey!!... these facts are really helpful...
but if only anyone could let me know wat are the diseases and nutritional deficiencies commonly seen in leopards... it would be of great help for my seminar on leopards...

August 31, 2009 at 1:15 AM 
<3Tim>3 is a leapord himself, and stalks his younger prey in candy shops.

September 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM Monty Sutcliffe said...

Monty Sutcliffe says

Leopards! They're Great!

October 11, 2009 at 6:00 AM 
i think the pic. is kind-of scary, but he's
still really cute

October 22, 2009 at 8:46 AM 
great!! i can defenitley use this stuf for my research paper!! thanks

October 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM 
i think leopards are awesome! so cute too !! <3

January 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM 
Thanks for sharing these facts, it sure is interesting!

February 11, 2010 at 10:46 PM 
leopards rock

March 17, 2010 at 8:19 AM 
OMG!!! I love snow leopards! I am doing a fiction story on them and Clouded and African leopards. They are strong, yet graceful. The ninjas of the animals. It could kill you without a sound. Or a deer.... If there sre any.....

April 14, 2010 at 8:27 AM 
they need to stop being killed

May 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM 
Wow! I lot of facts i dont want to read! to much info on one site!

May 6, 2010 at 7:16 AM 
I actually used the fact that leopards can carry twice their weight into a tree As a pickup line. It worked.

June 10, 2010 at 8:41 PM 
I luv leopard!!!!!!!! they rock!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

August 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM 
I love leopards, but the comment that they are, pound for pound, the strongest cat is false. Jaguars are the strongest cat, pound for pound.

October 26, 2010 at 8:52 PM mike mc said...

Jaguars are the strongest cat on earth pound for pound. Jaguars have the most powerful jaws of all cats (not just pound for pound). The Jaguars jaws are so powerful they can crush the armored shell of the large turtles. No other cat can do that. Jaguars are known as "The Skull Crushers of South America" because they kill their prey by crushing their skull with their massive jaws. Jaguars in the 300 plus pound range can drag an 800 prey animal up a tree. Lets see a Leopard, Lion or even Tiger try that! For stealth, grace and cunning no cat beats the Leopard though and they're no slouch in the power dept either!

December 13, 2010 at 10:04 PM 
The thing is, I've heard the pound-for-pound strength of Lepoards vs. Jaguars both ways. About Leopards carrying huge carcasses up trees, it is probably due to the fact that they have the strongest neck muscles, specifically, as well as being the best climbers. That said, Jaguars are the most densly muscled of big cats, and seemingly have the highest mass-to-volume.

January 16, 2011 at 1:32 AM 
I think Leopards are cool but I guese you stay away from because they can swallow you whole.................... but that is just what I heard from an scientist himself.

March 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM 
i bet most of you guys came here to verify daniel tosh's stand up comedy statement that these cats can carry up to 2 times it own body weight in a tree

April 28, 2011 at 9:14 PM 
i love this site!!!!

May 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM 
Im doing a project on Leopards, I picked that animal because I love all Leopard fur and designs<3 Thanks! :]

June 7, 2011 at 7:37 AM 
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June 7, 2011 at 7:38 AM 
yea i got a a+ in english

August 15, 2011 at 2:13 AM 
i loooooooooooooooove leopards my cat called leopardstar and her fur is just like a leopards

November 13, 2011 at 11:29 AM 
November 13, 2011 at 11:32 AM 
Also a neat fact leapords spots are not all round some are square and the spots are as unique as a human fingerprints!

November 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM 
i love leopards. are my favorite big cat

January 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM 
i love leopards
 
I love cats and I love leopards this website is awesome THANKS!!!

January 22, 2012 at 5:05 AM 
Wow they r amazing cats.

January 26, 2012 at 8:22 PM 
These animals are amazing!!!

March 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM 
There's a great Nat'l Geog. DVD "Eye of the Leopard." Absolutely beautiful cats. They've got so much strength coupled with agility that they can haul an impala up a tree within a few seconds (if they don't, hyenas or baboons will get 'em...and I'm not just talking about the impala--baboons in a troop can attack leopards). I don't know if a jaguar would haul a horse into a tree--doubt that, but jags can certainly kill horses. Their bite is so strong that turtle shells bust apart--they've got jaws like a pit bull and canines as strong as a leopard's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8vD9WxOH4

April 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM 
leopards are beautiful

April 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM clayawesome said...
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May 15, 2012 at 8:53 AM 
I love leopard<3

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May 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM 
The leopards are by far my favorite big cat. I'd just like to know if it is the best at anything above all other cats.

August 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM 
leopards are beautiful cats i hope they dont go extinct

October 17, 2012 at 7:24 PM 
yep, daniel tosh brought me here haha!

June 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM