Animal Unique | Persian Leopard | Persian leopard is also called Caucasian leopard. It is the largest leopard subspecies and is native to eastern Turkey, the Caucasus mountains, northern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and parts of western Afghanistan. Their habitat consists of subalpine meadows, deciduous forests and rugged canyons of 600 to 3.800 meters (2.000 to 12.500 feet) in the Greater Caucasus, and rocky slopes, mountains, steppes and arid forest in the Lesser Caucasus and Iran. Only a few small and isolated populations remain throughout the ecoregion. Suitable habitat in each range country is limited and usually located in remote border areas. The local population is dependent on immigration from source populations in the south, mainly in Iran. The Persian leopard is a flagship species. His presence is a sign of the health of the whole ecosystem.
This beautiful cat has a lot by resisting through the years of the war-torn conditions in the geographic range. This along with poaching for fur, has price hunting, poisoning, wild fires and habitat and prey loss meant that less than thirteen hundred Persian leopards in the wild today. Highest numbers are in Iran with about six to eight hundred animals reportedly existing. There are some conservation projects underway, with plans for the big cat again in Russia is one of them. There is not much documented about a unique physical characteristics of this large cat. It is similar in appearance to other members of his species, with a tawny coat marked with rosettes. It is rarely photographed in the wild and rarely studied in detail. As a result, not much is known about the behavior, hunting and reproductive profile, but the leopard is known to prey on a variety of animals such as deer, goats, sheep, camels, dogs, mules, wild pigs and birds.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. pardus
Subspecies: P. p. ciscaucasica
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. pardus
Subspecies: P. p. ciscaucasica
Persian leopards are threatened by poaching, depletion of their prey base due to poaching, human disturbance such as the presence of military and training of the troops in the border area, habitat loss due to deforestation, fire, agricultural expansion, overgrazing and infrastructure development.n Iran, primary threats are habitat disturbances followed by illegal hunting and cattle than in the leopard habitats. The leopards' chance to survive outside the protected areas are very small. Intensive dry in many parts of leopard habitat in recent years affecting major leopard prey animals such as wild goats and wild sheep.
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