The leopard stands out as an elusive, versatile, and adaptable animal. Researchers have just published the first genomic data for the African subspecies of the leopard. The results showed an ...

The elusive behavior of the African leopard has been revealed in great detail for the first time as part of a sophisticated study that links the majestic cat's caloric demands and its drive to kill.

Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas couldn’t have been luckier when a big black cat crossed his path while snapping wildlife in Kenya last month. “I couldn’t believe it,” Burrard-Lucas writes in a blog ...

Biologists have been searching for more proof of the African black leopard in Kenya for years, and as CNN reports, they finally managed to capture new photographs of the large cat in the wild. After a ...

Officials captured a wild African cat spotted wandering a suburban Ohio neighborhood. Screengrab from video by WKRC. A wild African cat seen wandering a suburban Ohio neighborhood has been captured ...

For centuries, the Lozi people of Zambia’s Barotseland region have worn the skins of wild cats at special events and ceremonies. Now, in a bid to save the animals, they are switching to fake fur. “Our ...

When Cincinnati area animal control officers got the call in late January it probably sounded like something … well, there are no leopards living in the wild in Ohio so they probably didn’t know what ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Turns out, the mythical African black ...

Wildlife ecologist Chris Wilmers is the founder and lead researcher of the Santa Cruz Puma Project. The elusive behavior of the African leopard has been revealed in great detail for the first time as ...