The Great Leopard Rescue: Saving the Amur Leopards

The Great Leopard Rescue: Saving the Amur Leopards — page 3
A male Amur leopard’s home range may cover more than 150 square miles 388 square kilometers As a cub he’d spent two years shadowing his mother and learning to hunt During the following winter he hunted with his brother and sister in their mother’s home range the area normally traveled while hunting They searched for prey on familiar ground and helped one another get enough to eat But adult Amur leopards hunt alone so in the spring the trio split up All summer long the young male wandered farther from his mother’s home range At last he found a range of his own Though he sometimes crosses paths with rivals and potential mates this part of the forest is his home Now he takes a path he’s traveled many times But before he picks up the scent of more prey the wind shifts bringing the nose stinging smell of smoke 6