Endangered Animals #2: Amur Leopard

This is another post on endangered animals! Today, the animal is the beautiful but critically endangered Amur Leopard! 

Again, these posts are NOT ordered from most to least endangered. These are random!

 

Status: Critically Endangered

Population: 70

Scientific name: Panthera pardus orientalis

Habitat: Temperate, Broadleaf, and Mixed Forests

Diet: deer, boar, and rodent

 

The Amur Leopard has adapted to life in the temperate forests, the northern region of the species range. There are only about 70 left in the wild! 

 

Description: Amur leopards have paler pelts than other leopards. They have thick, unbroken rings.

 

Amur leopards are important to its habitat.

Fun Facts!

  1.  The Amur Leopard can run at speeds up to 37 miles per hour!
  2. They live for 10-15 years!
  3. Also known as the Far East leopard, the Manchurian leopard, or the Korean leopard!

Endangered Animals #1: Red Wolf

 

This is my first post about endangered animals (second including my very first post). Today we will be talking about the fascinating, wonderful, and critically endangered Red Wolf! The Red Wolf is not the most endangered it’s one of the endangered. These posts are not in order from most endangered to least endangered.

Red wolves (Canis Rufus) are a subspecies of the Gray Wolf. There are about only 20 Red wolves left in the wild in 2022! They are native to North Carolina, where I live! That’s cool.

Description: Red wolves are mostly brown. There is sometimes a reddish tint to their fur. They may look like a German Shepherd at first glance!  The Red wolf’s size is between the Gray wolf and the coyote.

Fun Facts!

  1. Red wolves are nocturnal!
  2. The Red Wolf’s howl sounds like a coyote’s but is more lower pitched and lasts longer.