Leopards STEALTHY ASSASSINS
Dec 06, 2019
5 minutes
by Ian John Whyte
Photo © Stuart G Porter
“Strategies involve the utmost patience and stealth, a combination that makes the leopard such a successful predator.”
‹‹ Dr Ian John Whyte is an independent environmental consultant who retired from SANParks in 2007. He was previously engaged in full-time wildlife research in the Kruger National Park from 1970-2007. At the time of retirement, he was responsible for the coordination of all research projects pertaining to elephant, buffalo and other large herbivores and rare antelope. He is a member of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission’s African Elephant Specialist Group. He has co-authored two field guides to the birds of the KNP and is in the process of publishing a book about his life and work in KNP.
Originally there were up to 13 subspecies described, but now only one species is recognised (). In
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