like with the jaguar gives it a black variety also with the leopard. Black leopard or (black) panthers are called you. This rare fur-coloring is transmitted recessive.
The eyes of the leopard are directional to the front, so that it through the overlap of the sea-fields, distances very well can assess. For the hunt, this is essential. Like all cats, the leopard can through a light-reflective layer in the retina, sees also at night very well. The ears serve the bearings. Through its mobility, they make a distinctive spatial hearing possible. The smell-sense is with the leopard, that at the best trained Sinnesorgan. it plays an important role with the bearings, the precinct-marking and the combination. The sensitive string-hairs of the leopard serve the bearings.
Leopards are loners and put down everything at avoiding contact with Artgenossen. they mark its precinct at showy places with urine and Kratzspuren. If a meeting of two leopards nevertheless comes occur to Drohgebärden. No one of the adversaries gives up, dangerous confrontations with not rarely deadly exit occur.
After a Tragzeit of about. 100 come to the world 2-3 kids. These become about. It suckled 2 months before they are cured of the mother. Already after 6 months, the boys gain the mother's same size. This is also the time, in which the boys look for an independent precinct for itself. After 2,5 years, they are finally combination-ready.
The leopard distinguishes himself through its flexible hunt-technologies: Either it sneaks until on 5-6m at its victim along and catches it with a huge sentence or it puts himself on the balmier things at a suitable place and waits until an unsuspecting victim walks by. Both types are very energy-saving. As hunters, whom its loot pursues, the leopard is to however rarely be observed. The energy-expenditure for such a hunt simply is too high. If the leopard seized an animal, it kills it through a neck or Kehlbiss.
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