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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae

Carnivores

🐆Leopard

Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)

For alternative betydninger, se Leopard (flertydig). (Se også artikler, som begynder med Leopard) Leoparden (Panthera pardus) er en art i kattefamilien og er den af de store katte, der har størst udbredelse. Der findes leoparder næsten overalt i Afrika, i store dele af Asien, fra Tyrkiet over Mellemøsten til Indonesien og Rusland. Leoparden trives i næsten alle former for landskab – fra tropisk regnskov, tempererede skove og ørken til bjergområder op til 5,5 km over havets overflade. Leoparden er den 5. største kat i verden. Hannen kan veje op til 90 kg og blive 1,9 m lang. Hunnen er betydeligt mindre og kan veje op til 55 kg og blive 1,7 meter lang. Leoparden kan løbe helt op til 60 km/t.I naturen bliver leoparder i gennemsnittet mellem 12 og 17 år gammel. Men leoparden Roxanne som levede i McCarthney wildlife sanctuary (fangenskab) blev 24 år gammel.

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Conservation status

VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing

Key measurements

Body mass: 53 kg
Body length: 1.64 m
Shoulder height: 0.72 m
Top speed: 58 km/h
Bite force: 467 N
Maximum lifespan: 27 years

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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Leopard

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

53 kg

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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54 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high

Body length

1.64 m

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height

0.72 maverage

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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: male.

By sex

Male0.72 mStein & Hayssen 2013, Mammalian Species 45(900), pp.33-34n=6. Not verified for African leopard specifically.

Top speed

58 km/h

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Sprint over a short distance, not a sustained pace. Compilations give 58.32 and 59.98 km/h.

Source: Iriarte-Diaz 2002, J Exp Biol 205:2897 and Christiansen 2002, Zool J Linn Soc 136:685; compiled in Hirt et al. 2017, Nat Ecol Evol 1:1116, Supplementary Data · see citation

Bite force

467 N

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Canine bite modelled by the dry-skull method (Thomason 1991) from a prepared skull; static bite at the canines, gape not stated. Not a live measurement. The skull's estimated body mass was 43.1 kg.

Source: Wroe, McHenry & Thomason 2005, Proc R Soc B 272:619, Table 1 · see citation

Bite force for its size

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Bite force normalised for body mass: the residual of canine bite force regressed on body mass, average across the sample set to 100. Above 100 means the animal bites harder than its size predicts. Do not cross-check against Wikipedia's BFQ table, which silently mixes this paper with Christiansen & Wroe 2007 and cites a popular-science book.

Source: Wroe, McHenry & Thomason 2005, Proc R Soc B 272:619, Table 1 · see citation

Brain mass

134 g

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan

27 years

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0