Leopard
Leopard
Canadian Museum of Nature
Powerful and agile, the leopard is an efficient hunter. It stalks its prey, creeps to within a few metres, then leaps or dashes at the victim, which is dispatched by a bite in the back of the neck or smothered by a throat bite. The most common prey is hoofed animals, but it will also eat dogs, monkeys and even rodents, rabbits and birds. Leopards in eastern Africa frequently bring their kill into a tree to protect it from scavengers.
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