Appearance

The body an adult leopard 3-6.3 feet long and a 3 feet tail. Usually the coat a leopard is a pale tan with black spots everywhere. These circles have a central spot. Some specimens with darker colors have been seen. They are born in extraordonary litters and are all black.


Range

Leopards only live in Africa and Asia.


Habitat

These wild cats adapt to both rain forest and desert biomes, which are in the sub-Saharan of Africa


Food/Diet

Mainly the leopard will agilely climb up a tree and stock a monkey or some other kind of prey. Usually these cats go hunting at night, which makes the leopards nocturnal. When game is scarce leopards will eat field mice, fruit, porcupines, baboons, or arthropods.
 
 

Breeding

The females and males mate and bear 1-6 young per litter.


Status

There is an agreement that the leopard isn't endangered in the sub-Saharan but in other places it is. There is only 714,000 left.

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