The Biological Toolkit That Makes Terrain Adaptation Possible The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) has the broadest prey-weight range of any large felid in Asia. Documented kills in India span ...

We were sitting in the dark, waiting for the leopards beside a trail on the edge of India’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park, 40 square miles of green life in the middle of the sprawling gray metropolis of ...

Leopards are adaptable predators found across Africa and Asia in varied habitats. Multiple subspecies face threats from habitat loss, poaching, and human conflict. Conservation efforts include ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Asia’s mainland leopard cat is easy to overlook. It’s small, ...

The Numbers That Set the Snow Leopard Apart Most big cats push their young toward independence fast. Lion cubs leave the ...

Every crop burning season, dozens of leopard cat cubs are admitted to a wildlife rescue center in northeastern Thailand as fires tear through the sugarcane plantations where the cats shelter and hunt.

Do you know which big cat is the biggest? The answer might surprise you! Have you ever wondered what makes a big cat a big cat? How about which one of these fierce felines is the biggest of them all?

India has emerged as a global conservation success story, with all five of its wild big cat species recording population growth over the past two decades. From reviving the cheetah after seven decades ...