Wrath of the Trapped Beast-Captive Persian Leopard Killings _ Prey _ Weight _ Size
Originally published as The Wrath of a bespoken tape measure Trapped Animal-Captive Persian Leopard Murder Leopard a mysterious and elegant predator in nature wears a beautiful “battle robe” of money spots that makes countless people fall for it and is a natural master who quietly approaches and gives a fatal blow to its prey The leopard is “a solitary hunter wandering in the shadows where agility and intelligence are the keys to survival” (National Geographic) In the leopard cat family the size and physique of the leopard are far from comparable to those of the two huge and powerful lions and tigers and its strength is not comparable to that of the powerful Jaguar but the leopard wins because of its strong adaptability and its distribution range is much wider than that of the three larger and stronger feline beasts Although leopards in nature have never set foot in the New World they can be seen everywhere in the vast land of the Old World Manchuria and the Far East and North Asia east and north of the Korean Peninsula most of China the custom tailor tape Indochina Peninsula and the dense forests and islands of the South Asian subcontinent West Asia the Middle East Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula as well as parts of North Africa and the African continent south of the Sahara Desert are all leopard territories In history the footprints of leopards have spread all over the Asian and African continents but now they have shrunk dramatically The wild leopards can be divided into eight subspecies by DNA testing namely African leopard Arabian leopard Persian leopard foreign leopard and Sri Lanka leopard Because of the large number and wide distribution of wild leopards there are great differences in body size weight and length among different subspecies of leopards Generally speaking the weight of wild leopards ranges from 17 to 90 kilograms of which the largest is the Persian leopard Giant leopard The Persian leopard also known as the Anatolian leopard the Asia Minor leopard or the Caucasian leopard has a total population of no more than 1300 in the wild according to researchers The Persian leopard is mainly distributed in West Asia and the Middle East in the north of Pakistan and the southwest of the Greater Caucasus Mountains It mainly lives in Iran and Afghanistan with a small amount in Turkmenistan and sporadic distribution in Turkey abroad Azerbaijan Armenia and other Caucasus countries
