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Baghira and his brother Benji found refuge in Malkia Park after being abandoned by their mother.
Fortunately, Baghira came to us in better health than her brother Benji, who was not so lucky, despite the inappropriate care of a private person. He had leg problems and was a bit malnourished. As he caught up with his sister over time, they became harder to tell, but Benji’s trademark is his squinting eyes. In Malkia Park, they both have grass, sand, rocks, as well as bushes, trees to sharpen their claws, a varied diet and the love of their caretakers. We have created a home for them and most importantly they have each other. Benji has been neutered so there is no need to separate them during heat.
THANK YOU for the adoption contribution to Baghira:
Evke Jakubíčkovej,
Anne Ashirovej.
The base color of its coat ranges from pale brown to black. The contrasting coloration and pattern of its fur allow the leopard to camouflage perfectly. It is almost invisible in the environment it inhabits.
Melanism occurs in the leopard. As a result of the genetic mutation, the skin and coat contain a lot of dark pigment-melanin. In deserts, leopards are creamy yellow, in grassy areas dark yellow. Melanistic – black – leopards are found mainly in moist dense forests. The black colouring does not bother it at all. With its excellent eyesight and hearing, the leopard with its extremely long touch-sensitive whiskers is perfectly equipped for night hunting.
It climbs well, has very strong scapular and foreleg muscles.
A solitary, territorial hunter. The male leopard meets the female only during the mating season. After a relatively short pregnancy of about three months, the female takes care of the cubs alone. Cubs are born deaf, blind and weigh only about 500 g. The eyes open at nine days, when the spots also begin to be seen. Until then, the young appear to be one color. A female with cubs often changes shelter to avoid being preyed upon by lions, hyenas or male leopards. Usually two cubs survive and stay with the mother for two years, while the mother teaches them hunting tactics.
When it catches prey, it climbs with it into the crown of trees (sometimes up to 6 meters high) so that other animals (hyenas and jackals) don’t steal it and eats it in peace. In nature, it fulfills a sanitary function – it hunts only sick, old, injured individuals and young.
Leopard drinks as much as possible every day, but can go almost a month without water.
Leopards have an excellent sense of direction. The group, captured near Nairobi and relocated to Tsavo National Park, 320 km away, returned after a few weeks.
The so-called “black panthers” were once considered a separate species or subspecies. It is now clear that this is just a melanistic form of the leopard or jaguar. Even on a black substrate, the typical spots are clearly visible at a certain angle of light. A female can have both black and classically coloured young in her litter.
A leopard has twice better the hearing and six times better the vision of a human in the dark.
Baghira and his brother Benji found refuge in Malkia Park after being abandoned by their mother.
Fortunately, Baghira came to us in better health than her brother Benji, who was not so lucky, despite the inappropriate care of a private person. He had leg problems and was a bit malnourished. As he caught up with his sister over time, they became harder to tell, but Benji’s trademark is his squinting eyes. In Malkia Park, they both have grass, sand, rocks, as well as bushes, trees to sharpen their claws, a varied diet and the love of their caretakers. We have created a home for them and most importantly they have each other. Benji has been neutered so there is no need to separate them during heat.
THANK YOU for the adoption contribution to Baghira:
Evke Jakubíčkovej,
Anne Ashirovej.
The base color of its coat ranges from pale brown to black. The contrasting coloration and pattern of its fur allow the leopard to camouflage perfectly. It is almost invisible in the environment it inhabits.
Melanism occurs in the leopard. As a result of the genetic mutation, the skin and coat contain a lot of dark pigment-melanin. In deserts, leopards are creamy yellow, in grassy areas dark yellow. Melanistic – black – leopards are found mainly in moist dense forests. The black colouring does not bother it at all. With its excellent eyesight and hearing, the leopard with its extremely long touch-sensitive whiskers is perfectly equipped for night hunting.
It climbs well, has very strong scapular and foreleg muscles.
A solitary, territorial hunter. The male leopard meets the female only during the mating season. After a relatively short pregnancy of about three months, the female takes care of the cubs alone. Cubs are born deaf, blind and weigh only about 500 g. The eyes open at nine days, when the spots also begin to be seen. Until then, the young appear to be one color. A female with cubs often changes shelter to avoid being preyed upon by lions, hyenas or male leopards. Usually two cubs survive and stay with the mother for two years, while the mother teaches them hunting tactics.
When it catches prey, it climbs with it into the crown of trees (sometimes up to 6 meters high) so that other animals (hyenas and jackals) don’t steal it and eats it in peace. In nature, it fulfills a sanitary function – it hunts only sick, old, injured individuals and young.
Leopard drinks as much as possible every day, but can go almost a month without water.
Leopards have an excellent sense of direction. The group, captured near Nairobi and relocated to Tsavo National Park, 320 km away, returned after a few weeks.
The so-called “black panthers” were once considered a separate species or subspecies. It is now clear that this is just a melanistic form of the leopard or jaguar. Even on a black substrate, the typical spots are clearly visible at a certain angle of light. A female can have both black and classically coloured young in her litter.
A leopard has twice better the hearing and six times better the vision of a human in the dark.
