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Amur leopard cubs (Video)

info-pictogram1 Amur leopard cubs Argun and Anuy at Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Ashford in the UK. Video by Jackie Thomas.

Subhana’llah: Leopard (IMAGES)

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info-pictogram1 The leopard is the most elusive and secretive of the large felids. They are extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild. Leopards are renowned for their agility. They run up to 58km/h and can leap 6m horizontally and 3m vertically. They are also very strong swimmers.

Cat Babysitting Chicks (Video)

Incredible Kruger National Park Safari (Video)

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26 Gorgeous Cats That Are Disappearing From the Wild

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Source: http://www.the-open-mind.com

By: Jade Small

All cats deserve love. Even ones that live in the jungle and have really big teeth. Especially those ones. Ranging from really big (and kinda scary) to really small and adorable, nearly every wild cat in the world is threatened in some way. And that should make you very grumpy indeed.

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Bengal Kitten (IMAGE)

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info-pictogram1 “It seems that from early days the Arabs kept cats as pets. Otherwise we could not understand why (according to one early historian) the Prophet’s (saw) young widow, A’isha, when complaining that everyone had deserted her, added: ‘Even the cat has left me alone’ .” In contrast to other civilisations, “they were companions of most of the Muslims… from a housewife to a great scholar, they were loved, not only for their beauty or elegance but also for their practical purposes. For example, Muslim scholars wrote odes for their cats because they protected their precious books from attack by animals such as mice.

Trailer: Eye of the Leopard (Video)

info-pictogram1 Eye of the Leopard follows the remarkable life of one small leopard from when she is just 8 days old every step of the way until she is 3 years old and on the brink of adulthood. Legadema, as she is named, works her way into your heart as she slips in and out of danger virtually every day, running from baboons and hyenas but also making landmark strides in hunting and surviving. Narrated by Jeremy Irons it is the story of a mother and daughter relationship as well as that of an emerging huntress in Botswana’s magnificent Mombo region of the Okavango Delta.

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Subhana’llah: Cheetah (IMAGES)

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info-pictogram1 The cheetah is the world’s fastest land mammal. With acceleration that would leave most automobiles in the dust, a cheetah can go from 0 to 60 miles (96 kilometers) an hour in only three seconds. These big cats are quite nimble at high speed and can make quick and sudden turns in pursuit of prey.

Dramatic: Indian villagers corner leopard, big cat strikes back (Video)

info-pictogram1 A frightened leopard bites a man on the behind after being cornered in the west Indian village of Ballarpur, Maharashtra. The animal was reportedly captured by the forest department and subsequently released into the wild. The incident comes amid a rash of human encounters with Leopards, both in Chandrapur and elsewhere in India, according to NDTV. Indian Leopard habitat is under threat from expanding agricultural land-use and the species is about to be listed is ‘vulnerable’.