Leopards
By Claire Throp
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Claire Throp
Claire Throp has worked in publishing for over 20 years. She has written children's nonfiction books on a range of subjects, including sport, history, and wildlife.
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Leopards - Claire Throp
Contents
What Are Big Cats?
What Are Leopards?
How Are Leopards Classified?
Where Do Leopards Live?
What Adaptations Help Leopards Survive?
What Do Leopards Eat?
What Is a Leopard’s Life Cycle?
How Do Leopards Behave?
How Intelligent Are Leopards?
What Threats Do Leopards Face?
How Can People Help Leopards?
What Does the Future Hold for Leopards?
Leopard Profile
Glossary
Find Out More
Index
Some words are shown in bold, like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.
What Are Big Cats?
What’s that up in the tree? It’s a leopard finding a place to rest in the heat of the day. Leopards are far more active at night when it’s cooler. That’s when they do most of their hunting.
Mammals
Big cats such as leopards are mammals. Mammals have fur or hair on their body and use lungs to breathe. Most give birth to live young, and mammal babies feed on milk from their mother. Does this description sound familiar? It should—humans are also mammals.
Cats
There are 36 species in the cat family, including the domestic cat you might have at home! But only a small number are known informally as big cats. One definition of big cats includes all the species of Panthera or roaring cats. Tigers are the largest of the roaring cats, followed by lions, jaguars, and leopards. Some scientists also describe the cheetah, puma, snow leopard, and clouded leopard as big cats.
Cats are great hunters, usually searching for food at night because their vision is often a lot better than that of their prey, and because it’s cooler. All their senses are excellent, helped by rotating ears and sensitive vibrissae (whiskers).
LENGTH OF HAIR
The hairs of an Amur leopard’s coat change in length from summer to winter. In summer, they are about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long but in winter they grow to 3 inches (nearly 7 centimeters).
Leopards