Cheetah Food Chain
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African leopards are animals known as carnivors, meaning that they eat meat.
They eat animals that are smaller than them, but occasionally they hunt bigger animals.
Some of the animals that African leopards eat are monkeys, wildebeest, gazelles, rodents, reptiles, mammals, antelope,
deer, amphibians, impala, birds, etc.
They eat animals that are smaller than them, but occasionally they hunt bigger animals.
Some of the animals that African leopards eat are monkeys, wildebeest, gazelles, rodents, reptiles, mammals, antelope,
deer, amphibians, impala, birds, etc.
Life cycle
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Life cycleThe cubs are born with their markings and with their eyes shut. Female leopards give birth to 2 or 3 cubs. The born leopards suckle milk from their
mother for up to 1year. The young leopards learn to hunt by playing and watching their mother hunt. Leopards can live up to
12 years or a little more.
The leopard cub leaves their mother when they are about 2 years old to find a new territory of their own.
mother for up to 1year. The young leopards learn to hunt by playing and watching their mother hunt. Leopards can live up to
12 years or a little more.
The leopard cub leaves their mother when they are about 2 years old to find a new territory of their own.
human disturbances
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Asian leopards are rapidly losing their habitat and prey species. Wild sheep and goats, the natural prey of species such as the snow leopard, have been hunted out of many areas in the central Asian mountains, and growing human and livestock populations are putting increasing pressure on the remaining leopards and their prey.Increases in livestock and a decrease in natural habitat have inevitably resulted in livestock predation by leopards, and subsequent retaliation by herders. In the summer of 2003 in Mongolia, snow leopard predation caused the death of 20 horses (worth an average of US$100-150 each) in a WWF project area. Between 1996 and 2002 at least 16 snow leopards were reported killed in Zaskar in northern India, eight in one village alone.