When it kills animals such as gazelle, it carries them up into the trees to eat it. The only cold-weather leopard, it has long fur on its flanks and back of its legs. It is one of the most endangered cats in the world, with a population of less than 50 individuals. It is the leopard with the most northerly range. The ones that do not have any information following live in Africa and are fairly uniform in size and coloration.
Melanistic individuals tend to live in the forests.
Lived in Caucasian Mts., now extinct. Nominate species, Africa. Indian Leopard, under little threat of extinction, lives where tigers don't. North China Leopard, shorter fur more golden yellow. Sinai Peninsula, may be extinct.