In June 2022, an infrared camera captured a Siberian leopard cub for the first time in Chaoyanggou Forest Farm, Dongning City, Heilongjiang Province. In the
video, two Amur leopards, one large and one small, came into the frame one after another. The giant leopard is an adult female leopard with a cub that is only a few months old. Leopard mother has a new baby. This is really the best news for the Siberian leopard family..
Amur leopard, also called Amur leopard . Its living area overlaps with the Siberian tiger . It was once distributed in large forests in the Heilongjiang Basin and the entire Korean Peninsula. Now, it has been reduced to a small narrow area at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea.
The Siberian leopard is the rarest existing large cat. According to statistics in 2011, there are only 30 to 35 wild Siberian tigers in the world, which is only one-tenth of the number of wild Siberian tigers. In the past 10 years, the number of Amur leopards in my country has recovered significantly.
are both the two major cats at the top of the food chain in the Northeast forests. Usually everyone’s attention is on the larger Siberian tiger, and little attention is paid to the Siberian leopard. However, under the aura of protecting the Siberian tiger, the Siberian leopard is also quietly recovering its vitality.
Let’s start from the beginning.
my country's golden leopard 's four major families
Siberian leopard is one of the leopard family.
leopard, commonly known as leopard , golden leopard, has golden hair with hollow black spots like copper coins.
The golden leopard is the most widely distributed cat in the world after domestic cats. From Asia to Africa, leopards can be found across the entire Old World.
In my country, there are 4 subspecies of leopard, North China leopard , Amur leopard, Indochinese leopard , Indian leopard .
Most members of the golden leopard prefer warm climates, but only the Siberian leopard lives in forests and snowfields. It can adapt to the northeastern forests where the lowest temperature reaches -25℃ .
Compared with other leopard brothers, the appearance of the Siberian leopard is easy to identify. The copper coin pattern area on its body is larger, the black circles are rounder and more complete, and the copper coins are not densely spaced. The Amur leopard, which is covered in short golden fur in summer, changes into long fur to protect it from the severe cold in winter. Its fur is very soft, and the hair is long and dense. The length of the hair can reach 7cm. Its color is grayish white, which is lighter than that of other leopard brothers. In addition, its limbs are relatively long, making it easier for it to step into the thick snow in the cold winter.
Some people say that because it lives in cold areas, the Amur leopard is the largest of all leopards.
This is not true. Among the leopard tribe, the Siberian leopard is only considered the middle size. The Amur leopard has a body length of 0.8 to 1.4 meters and a tail length of 1 meter. The average weight of males is 46 kilograms and that of females is 34 kilograms. In the leopard family, the largest one is the Persian leopard , and the average weight of the male is 66 kilograms. In addition, the size of African leopard also exceeds that of Amur leopard. Among the four subspecies in my country, the Indian leopard is larger than the Amur leopard, with the average male weighing 63 kilograms.
The relationship between Siberian leopards and Siberian tigers
Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards share their habitat, but in the records of Changbai Mountain, Siberian tigers are more common in lower altitude areas. Siberian leopards will move at higher altitudes, away from villages and roads.
The Siberian leopard is a medium-sized Siberian leopard, much smaller than the Siberian tiger. The male Siberian tiger has a body length of 2.3 meters and an average weight of 250 kilograms . Although not as big as the Siberian tiger, they are the two predators at the top of the food chain in the Northeast forest. The Siberian tiger and the Siberian leopard share the food menu. In June 2022, an infrared camera captured a Siberian leopard cub for the first time in Chaoyanggou Forest Farm, Dongning City, Heilongjiang Province. In the video, two Amur leopards, one large and one small, came into the frame one after another. The giant leopard is an adult female leopard with a cub that is only a few months old. Leopard mother has a new baby. This is really the best news for the Siberian leopard family.. Amur leopard, also called Amur leopard . Its living area overlaps with the Siberian tiger . It was once distributed in large forests in the Heilongjiang Basin and the entire Korean Peninsula. Now, it has been reduced to a small narrow area at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea. The Siberian leopard is the rarest existing large cat. According to statistics in 2011, there are only 30 to 35 wild Siberian tigers in the world, which is only one-tenth of the number of wild Siberian tigers. In the past 10 years, the number of Amur leopards in my country has recovered significantly. are both the two major cats at the top of the food chain in the Northeast forests. Usually everyone’s attention is on the larger Siberian tiger, and little attention is paid to the Siberian leopard. However, under the aura of protecting the Siberian tiger, the Siberian leopard is also quietly recovering its vitality. Let’s start from the beginning. Siberian leopard is one of the leopard family. leopard, commonly known as leopard , golden leopard, has golden hair with hollow black spots like copper coins. The golden leopard is the most widely distributed cat in the world after domestic cats. From Asia to Africa, leopards can be found across the entire Old World. In my country, there are 4 subspecies of leopard, North China leopard , Amur leopard, Indochinese leopard , Indian leopard . Most members of the golden leopard prefer warm climates, but only the Siberian leopard lives in forests and snowfields. It can adapt to the northeastern forests where the lowest temperature reaches -25℃ . Compared with other leopard brothers, the appearance of the Siberian leopard is easy to identify. The copper coin pattern area on its body is larger, the black circles are rounder and more complete, and the copper coins are not densely spaced. The Amur leopard, which is covered in short golden fur in summer, changes into long fur to protect it from the severe cold in winter. Its fur is very soft, and the hair is long and dense. The length of the hair can reach 7cm. Its color is grayish white, which is lighter than that of other leopard brothers. In addition, its limbs are relatively long, making it easier for it to step into the thick snow in the cold winter. Some people say that because it lives in cold areas, the Amur leopard is the largest of all leopards. This is not true. Among the leopard tribe, the Siberian leopard is only considered the middle size. The Amur leopard has a body length of 0.8 to 1.4 meters and a tail length of 1 meter. The average weight of males is 46 kilograms and that of females is 34 kilograms. In the leopard family, the largest one is the Persian leopard , and the average weight of the male is 66 kilograms. In addition, the size of African leopard also exceeds that of Amur leopard. Among the four subspecies in my country, the Indian leopard is larger than the Amur leopard, with the average male weighing 63 kilograms. Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards share their habitat, but in the records of Changbai Mountain, Siberian tigers are more common in lower altitude areas. Siberian leopards will move at higher altitudes, away from villages and roads. The Siberian leopard is a medium-sized Siberian leopard, much smaller than the Siberian tiger. The male Siberian tiger has a body length of 2.3 meters and an average weight of 250 kilograms . Although not as big as the Siberian tiger, they are the two predators at the top of the food chain in the Northeast forest. The Siberian tiger and the Siberian leopard share the food menu. Their food includes large ungulates animals, red deer , moose and sika deer , as well as Siberian roe deer and wild boar. They will also prey on small rabbits, raccoon dogs, badgers, and sometimes the cubs of black bears and brown bears for a change. 2015 Along the border between my country and Russia in winter, biologists collected fecal samples from 9 tigers. After analysis, they found that their main food in winter was wild boar, sika deer and roe deer. In the summer, food is plentiful, and you can fill your belly by catching any small prey. Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards have no worries about eating and drinking, and there is no conflict between them. In winter, hunting becomes more difficult, and the Amur tiger becomes a major threat to the Amur leopard. Like most cats, the Amur leopard is a solitary creature. Each Amur leopard has its own activity territory, which occasionally overlaps. When there is a lack of food, the activity range of an Amur leopard can be expanded to 100 square kilometers. Due to illegal hunting, habitat loss and other reasons, large areas of the Amur leopard's living territory have been fragmented. The separation of connected territories has brought a fatal disaster to the Amur leopard, as it cannot find a suitable mate. Amur leopards during the breeding period face the risk of inbreeding, which reduces the genetic diversity of their offspring, seriously affecting the health of the population. The survival rate of cubs is lower from generation to generation, and the disease rate is getting higher and higher. By 20 years ago, the Amur leopard was almost reduced to the point of "extinction". In 2007html, the Amur leopard was listed as a critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List. At that time, it was estimated that there were only 19 to 26 wild Amur leopards, making it one of the rarest cats on the planet. After , as protection efforts increased, captive Amur leopards were released step by step, and the number of wild Amur leopards began to slowly recover. In 2011html, border guards stationed in Hunchun City, used surveillance equipment to photograph a Siberian leopard appearing on the mountains on the border between China and Russia. This is the first time a wild Amur leopard has been photographed in Jilin Province. Since then, the Amur leopard has appeared in the camera lens from time to time. In 2013html, a Siberian leopard was photographed at Lanjia Forest Farm in Jilin Province, carrying 2 half-year-old cubs. In October 2021html, Amur leopards went down the mountain into the village, sneaked into the chicken coop and killed many my country's golden leopard 's four major families
The relationship between Siberian leopards and Siberian tigers
Current situation of the Amur leopard
On June 11, 2022, a detection camera set up at the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park Management Bureau , and the Tokyo City Bureau's Birch Conservation Station captured an adult male Amur leopard for the first time. In the following two days, a nearby camera photographed a male Amur leopard three times, but it was not certain whether it was the same one.
2022html On June 14, 2022, a female leopard and her cub appeared at Chaoyanggou Forest Farm in Dongning City.
According to data released by the State Forestry Administration, there are more than 50 wild Siberian tigers and more than 60 wild Siberian leopards in the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park. There are more than 10 newly bred tiger cubs and more than 7 leopard cubs.
20html The wild Amur leopard population, which was on the verge of "extinction" three years ago, finally breathed a sigh of relief and regained some vitality.
Biologists built an operational model based on genetics and population statistics and proposed the concept of " minimum surviving population ". The minimum surviving population size refers to the minimum number of individuals required to maintain the self-continuation of the population in the wild environment. This quantity threshold is 50.
Now, the number of wild Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards in my country has reached the passing standard for self-sustaining populations.
welcomes the Amur leopard baby for the first time and wishes the Amur leopard race to add more babies.
Okay, let’s stop talking about the secret of the Siberian Leopard.
follows Franceis Bacon and explains the secrets of nature to you. See you in the next issue.
References:
1. Results of Camera Trap Survey of Leopard Population in Southwest Primorski Krai, Winter 2002–2003
2. Spatial distribution drivers of Amur leopard density in northeast China
Okay, let’s stop talking about the secret of the Siberian Leopard.
follows Franceis Bacon and explains the secrets of nature to you. See you in the next issue.
References:
1. Results of Camera Trap Survey of Leopard Population in Southwest Primorski Krai, Winter 2002–2003
2. Spatial distribution drivers of Amur leopard density in northeast China
