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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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The day is over now, and the night will soon command the cooler air; lions and leopards will reign in the darkness, millions of white-hot stars punctuating the black bowl of sky overhead.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Snow leopards are amongst the most beautiful and elusive of the great cats, their tawny coats with black rosettes offer effective camouflage in their native mountain habitats.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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All black or melanistic leopards, sometimes commonly called 'Black Panthers' (see below), are born in the same litter as normally marked cats and also carry the rosette markings, although these are masked by the darkness of the fur.
Melanistic or black jaguars (see below) are common in certain parts of its range and are often confusingly labelled 'Black Panthers', a name which is also applied to black Leopards.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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The Clouded Leopard's tail is thick and plush, encircled with black rings, and very long, typically equivalent to head-body length (up to 80-90 cm.
Although they look similar to leopards with tawny yellow fur dotted with black, cheetahs' bodies are slimmer with longer legs.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The country is home to the Royal Bengal tiger, leopards, Asiatic elephants (mostly migratory herds from Bihar), and a few remaining black bears.
Snow-leopards, whose furs fetch $2,000 on the black market, have been hunted to extermination in Afghanistan.
Whereas, Wild Boar, Black Bear and Monkeys are reported to sometimes cause damage to standing crops, instances of lifting of domestic animals by leopards are also reported.
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Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist
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Most sightings appear to be of black leopards or panthers, and a sandy brown cat thought to be a puma.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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They are exploited because of the economic status of most third world countries and the pelt of leopards goes for a high price on the black market.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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The melanistic leopards are referred to as Black Panthers, which is not to be confused with the black jaguar or the Florida Panther who is in a different family of felines altogether.
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