The Amur Leopards Page

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Celebrating Squishy & Wiggly

The WWF calls the Amur leopard “the cat that stalks alone: an endangered solitary hunter” [→ new tab link to the WWF’s species profile]. The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) [→ new tab link to Wikipedia], is a wild feline predator native to Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East, at home in the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests. It is one of the rarest large cats in the world with an estimated 30 to 35 individuals remaining in the wild, and some 150 or so in zoos [→ new tab link to more information at the ALTA Amur Leopard Conservation coalition].



On 5 April 2010 Amur leopard Darla gave birth to two cubs in the Tallinn Zoo [→ new tab link to Tallinn Zoo]. Kribu spread the word on Buzz and LiveJournal that you can watch the cubs grow up live via webcam [→ new tab link, 3rd cam] and video archive [→ new tab link; vids are arranged chronologically, the newest at the top].

And that’s what a whole group of us have been doing since, from the first glimpse of tiny tails to the first wobbling steps. In chats, on Buzz, on LiveJournal, watching webcam and archive vids, taking and sharing screencaps we’ve followed the development of the cubs, nicknamed Squishy and Wiggly.

Happy Birthday, Squishy and Wiggly!

To celebrate the fourth week of their lives today on 3 May 2010, this page is dedicated to Squishy and Wiggly – and all your leoparding needs!

Enjoy and share pictures, banners, and icons, visit the photo album, and exciting leoparding news. (Of course the page will be updated now and again to keep track of the lives and times of Squishy and Wiggly.)

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More pictures can be found in the

Leopards Album »


Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike: The Amur Leopards Page banner was created by JunoMagic based on Creative Commons pictures by 03ahmed and wwarby at Flickr.

4 Responses to The Amur Leopards Page

  1. nata says:

    They are beautiful!

    Here is a link to official conservation assessment of Amur leopards from IUCN that drives all legislation of protected species:

    http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/15957/0

  2. mw says:

    ~loves~

    They are so BIG now! 😀

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