Ferocious Animal - The Leopard

The Leopard is at its most dangerous once wounded, and is very likely to attack in retaliation. Leopards are typically shy, solitary nocturnal animals. The Leopards habitat is spread widely across the whole of Africa. Leopard can go long times without water as they are able to drink the blood from their prey, that said they will regularly drink water when ever it is available. Adult Leopards eat about 20 percent of their own body weight from a single feed. The male 'Tom' can weigh from 120 up to 200 pounds, females are smaller from 70 up to 130 pounds, appearing notably thinner than the male tom. Ever since the early seventies, geckos have been scrutenized a lot by herpetologists and a lot more knowledge has been found out about these lizards. More than 30 short years ago, these creatures were discovered and exported into America found themselves in our homes. These reptiles are grouped into many specific patterns.

Leopards are highly territorial and a excellent killers, they have exceptional eyesight and hearing requiring stealth to hunt successfully. Even once you have taken a shot and hit the Leopard approach with great care, Leopards are well camouflaged and a master of stealth, appearing to attack you from out of nowhere. A normal or regular leopard gecko, or commonly known as a Leo, has sort of an orange yellow skin with black spots like a leopard. Very similar kinds of Leo's are high yellow. Similar to a normal leopard's but with a much brighter yellow color, high yellows are one of the original designer leopard gecko breeds. Pastels are a very interesting variety of leopard gecko breeds. Lacking most black pigment the leopard spots are actually replaced with other colors like tan or sometimes even lavender bands. Pastels, as the name implies are a rather pale but colorful kind of leopard breeds.

As the Leopard is mainly a nocturnal hunter, it is extremely difficult to get the right shot as we must hunt the Leopard during the daylight hours. As they are the smallest of the big five dangerous hunts, the Leopard can be taken with calibers as small as.270 or 7mm. However, in African countries the.375 is the minimum legal caliber. Although they look very similar these albinos can actually not be mated with all other breeds so it's best to know what mixes well with yours before you get one. Some people say that a blizzard leopard gecko is also a type of albino since it only has the faintest traces of yellow on it. Tangerine Leo's are pretty much exactly the way they are described; a bright orange color instead of the yellow that so dominates most leopard gecko breeds. Also known as just plain 'Orange' these types have an increased orange color depending on what you feed them. A diet rich in carotenoids means a deeper orange color. He's got a big, bullish head tapering down to a slender tail and he swims a bit like an eel but on a grand scale. He's got tiny eyes but, considering in the wild he would hunt at night and in coral crevices he probably doesn't really need them. No-one really seems to know why they start out life as a Zebra shark and then develop their leopard print pattern and Leo certainly isn't telling.