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Pronunciation: [lˈɛpədz] (IPA)

Leopards are majestic big cats found in Africa and Asia that have been the subject of fascination and admiration for centuries. There are various synonyms that can be used to refer to these fierce animals, including panthers, cougars, jaguars, and pumas. Often, the term "panther" is used interchangeably with "leopard," although panther usually refers to the black variant of the big cat. The word "cougar" is sometimes used when referring to the North American subspecies of the leopard, while "jaguar" is commonly used to describe the South American leopard. "Puma" is another term that can be used to describe these elusive creatures, particularly in North America.
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Cleopatra, I believe, had pet leopards that were allowed to purr on the steps of her throne.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Hump-backed cows and black swine, with an occasional domesticated buffalo, are all the animals one sees, though there are a plenty of wild ones not far away in less populous districts, including bears, deer, leopards, and elephants.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
On remarking to an intelligent resident of the island, who was a fellow passenger, that no wild animals were to be seen upon the route, he replied that if we were to leave the more thickly settled district and strike into the forest, abundant tracks would be met with of bears, leopards, and elephants.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou

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  • Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
    Robert Shea
  • After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
    American Indian Proverb
  • When beasts went together in companies, there was said to be a pride of lions; a lepe of leopards; an herd of harts, of bucks, and of all sorts of deer; a bevy of roes; a sloth of bears; a singular of boars; a sownder of wild swine; a dryft of tame swine; a route of wolves; a harras of horses; a rag of colts; a stud of mares; a pace of asses; a baren of mules, a team of oxen; a drove of kine; a flock of sheep; a tribe of goats; a sculk of foxes; a cete of badgers; a richess of martins; a fesynes of ferrets; a huske or a down of hares; a nest of rabbits; a clower of cats, and a kendel of young cats; a shrewdness of apes; and a labour of moles.
    Joseph Strutt
  • "Civilized men laugh," said Conan. "But not one can tell me how Zogar Sag can call pythons and tigers and leopards out of the wilderness and make them do his bidding. They would say it is a lie, if they dared. That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it."
    Robert E. Howard
  • Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his native language. Never had he seen a human being other than himself, for the little area traversed by his tribe was watered by no greater river to bring down the savage natives of the interior. High hills shut it off on three sides, the ocean on the fourth. It was alive with lions and leopards and poisonous snakes. Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

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