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Panthera pardus (Chui in Swaili)
The most hard to spot... What a luck...
"Studies of leopard home range size have tended to focus on protected areas, which may have led to skewed data; as of the mid-1980s, only 13% of the leopard range actually fell within a protected area. However, significant variations in the size of home ranges have been suggested across the leopard's range. Research in Namibia that focused on spatial ecology in farmlands outside of protected areas revealed ranges that were consistently above 100 km2 (39 sq mi) with some more than 300 km2 (120 sq mi). Admitting that their data were at odds with others, the researchers found little or no sexual variation in the size of territories." in Wikipedia
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I will Karen
Thank you for your kind words...
Filipe, did you know that there is an African Cats mission? You might like to add your wonderful spottings - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7973...
They seem so comfortable in trees!