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Leopard
Panthera pardus (Leopard · ヒョウ)
🇰🇷 Class I endangered wildlife (Korea) (subspecies Panthera pardus orientalis)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 A top speed of 60 km/h matches the speed of a car on a city road with a 60 km/h limit (Comparison).
- 💡 A male's maximum weight of 65 kg is about the weight of an adult human (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Leopard is a large wild cat widely distributed across forests, grasslands, mountains, and deserts of Africa and Asia.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Males weigh 31–65 kg and females weigh 17–58 kg, making males larger, and it can sprint up to 60 km/h over short distances.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
An ambush predator, it mainly hunts medium-sized ungulates weighing about 10–40 kg as well as birds, reptiles, and rodents. Gestation lasts about 96 days, and females give birth to 2–3 cubs per litter.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
In the National List of Species of Korea, the subspecies Panthera pardus orientalis is designated as Class I endangered wildlife (Korea).
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List VU (2025) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15954/286153337
- • 멸종위기 야생생물 Ⅰ급 (아종 Panthera pardus orientalis) — 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000053295 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000053295
- • IUCN Red List category VU — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • Korean protection status: Class I endangered wildlife (Korea) (subspecies Panthera pardus orientalis)
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1006022
- • iucnredlist.org — 286153337
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000053295 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000053295
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000213633 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000213633
- • wikidata.org — Q34706
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Male leopard - Mara.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Panthera pardus
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.