Leopard

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Fact: Leopards can live between 12 to 17 years.
Source: About.com: Leopards

Fact: The carnivores mistakenly known as black panthers, are actually leopards with black coats and black spots (also known as rosettes). This solid black appearance is called melanism.
Source: National Geographic Book of Mammals, Volume 2, prepared by the Special Publications Division, page 332.

Fact: Even though a leopard's coat may be soaked with dew, it will still avoid stepping in water puddles so it won't get its feet wet. How very like a cat!
Source: National Geographic October 2001, Tracking the Leopard, by Kim Wolhuter, page 97.

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Fact: The mortality rate of leopard cubs is 40 to 50%.
Source: Leopard

Fact: Leopard cubs are born blind, but will be ready to start hunting with their mother by the time they are four months old.
Source: Wildest Africa, by Paul Tingay, page 71.

Fact: Leopards breed year-round in Africa and India, but only through January to February in East Siberia and Manchuria.
Source: Bies, L. 2002. "Panthera pardus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web

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Fact: Of the leopards' senses, their eyesight and hearing are exceptionally keen.
Source: Bies, L. 2002. "Panthera pardus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web

Fact: "The leopard... and other tree cats are generally marked with spots which resemble gleams of light glancing through the leaves... their peculiar coloring renders them less conspicuous by simulating spots of light which penetrate through foliage. "
Source: A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV., Sir John Lubbock, pages 316, 338.

Fact: White spots on the back of the leopards' ears are thought to help small leopard cubs keep track of their mother so they can follow her through dense undergrowth.
Source: International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC) Canada

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