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|firstfeatured=Kemono Friends (2015 Game)

|name_sci=Panthera pardus

|diet=Carnivore

|lifespan=12-17 years

She wears a short-sleeved white dress shirt under a fawn-brown sweater-vest, and sports a leopard-patterned tie. As one might expect, this leopard pattern makes up a large part of her attire; she wears long gloves, a knife-pleated miniskirt, thigh-highs, and boots which all bear this pattern. The amber colour of her thigh-highs fades into an off-white as it moves from the thigh to the feet; her boots follow this trend, and are off-white as a result. They are tied with caramel-brown bows.

The EX Leopard design has longer hair that is tied into two pigtails of a more definite white than her counterpart's off-white. The brown spots on her middle bangs number six instead of five, and are differently arranged; additionally, her left and right bangs feature five brown spots apiece. She wears a similar white dress shirt, but the fawn-brown vest is omitted, and her leopard-print tie is substituted for a red bow. Her boots are higher, reaching about halfway up her thigh, and have black laces. Like her pigtails, they are more starkly white compared to the off-white of the standard design.

|reallife=[[File:Tree Leopardjpg.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.0|left| Leopard relaxing in a tree]]

Inhabiting a wide range of habitats across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa- savanna, rainforests, mountains, grasslands, even temperate forests- the elusive leopard is one of the five members of the family ''Felidae'' that finds itself classified among the ''Panthera'' genus, alongside the lion, tiger, jaguar, and snow leopard. The distinctive fur of the leopard is characterized by its rosettes, which act as camouflage while it hunts. It is also notable for its long tail, which helps improve its agility and balance both on the ground- where it is able to run up to 58kph- and in the trees it so often climbs.

Leopards bear immense neck and upper body strength, which are used to drag their meals into trees; lugging prey items upwards of 40kg (88lbs.) vertically up a tree is little trouble for one of these big cats. The main reason this is done is to secure the food for itself; kill theft is commonplace in the animal kingdom, and large carnivores such as tigers, lions, and hyenas, as well as pack hunters such as African wild dogs and dholes, have little to no issue chasing a leopard away from its food. The other reason is to avoid becoming a food item themselves; leopards are often not apex predators within their ecosystems, and lions and tigers alike have been documented killing and eating both juvenile and adult leopards.

|trivia=* Leopards and jaguars are often confused for one another due to their similar patterns. However, their distinctions are in fact numerous.

** Leopards and jaguars do not inhabit the same range; leopards are found in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, while jaguars are found primarily in Central and South America.

* Although the ''Panthera'' genus is often believed to contain the five largest members of the ''Felidae'' family, this is not quite the case. The leopard is indeed the fifth largest of the ''Felidae,'' but it is smaller on average in all of weight, length, and shoulder height than the non-''Panthera'' cougar- the fourth largest of the ''Felidae-'' which belongs to its own genus, ''Puma.'' Additionally, the snow leopard ranks only seventh, being smaller than both of the aforementioned as well as the non-''Panthera'' cheetah, which like the cougar also belongs to its own genus: ''Acinonyx.''

** Though both are members of the ''Panthera'' genus, and both are called "leopard," the leopard and snow leopard are very distinct, being no more genetically similar to one another than either is to the other members of ''Panthera.''

|reference=* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard

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