Amazing Felines

By: Moutiangirl
2-7-2007

What amazing animal diligently carries its young to a new hiding spot every few days to avoid having its cubs falling prey to predators? This exotic cat is the leopard. Although these felines were once pursued for their pelts, they are now a protected species and roam forest regions, semi-deserts, and lower mountain ranges of Africa, and Asia with ease. Living as solitary animals, leopards tend to dwell within a defined territory, except when mating and rearing their cubs, and mark it with urine, or by shredding the bark off of certain trees. Stealthy and ferocious, these carnivores’ sharp vision and keen sense of hearing give them the unique ability to avoid detection by their predators and prey, when hunting at dawn and dusk. Although born underdeveloped and helpless, cubs can grow to be a bulky hundred pounds, and look like majestic monarchs with their beautiful spotted pelts of pole yellows to inky blacks. These glorious animals, which can live for over a decade, are nothing short of amazing!