The leopard has the largest distribution of all wild cats,

The (Panther parous) is one of the five surviving species in the sort Panther, an individual from the Felidae. It happens in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in little pieces of Western and Central Asia, on the Indian subcontinent to Southeast and East Asia. It is recorded as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since panther populaces are compromised by living space misfortune and fracture, and are declining in enormous pieces of the worldwide range.

The panther's hide is commonly delicate and thick, strikingly milder on the paunch than on the back. Its skin tone differs between people from pale yellowish to dull brilliant with dim spots assembled in rosettes. Its stomach is whitish and its ringed tail is shorter than its body. Its students are round. Leopards living in bone-dry locales are pale cream, yellowish to ochraceous and rufous in shading; those living in timberlands and mountains are a lot hazier and profound brilliant. Spots blur toward the white underside and the internal parts and lower portions of the legs.

Melanistic panthers are additionally called dark pumas. Melanism in panthers is acquired as a latent attribute moderately to the seen form. Interbreeding in melanistic panthers delivers an altogether littler litter size than is created by typical pairings. The dark jaguar is normal first in tropical and subtropical damp backwoods like the central rainforest of the Malay Peninsula and the tropical rainforest on the slants of some African mountains

The panther has the biggest circulation of every wild feline, happening generally in Africa just as the Caucasus and Asia, in spite of the fact that populaces are divided and declining. It is viewed as extirpated in North Africa. It possesses first savanna and rainforest, and territories where meadows, forests, and riverine woods remain to a great extent undisturbed.

The panther is a single and regional creature. Grown-ups partnerst in the mating season. Females keep on interfacing with their posterity even subsequent to weaning, and have been watched offering slaughters to their posterity when they can not get any prey. They produce various vocalizations, including snarls, growls, whimpers and murmurs. The thundering arrangement in panthers comprises for the most part of snorts and is likewise called "sawing", having been depicted as looking like the sound of sawing wood. Whelps are known to call their mom with a sound

The panther relies chiefly upon its intense feelings of hearing and vision for hunting. It principally chases around evening time in most areas. In western African backwoods and Tsavo National Park, panthers have been likewise watched chasing by day. Leopards ordinarily chase on the ground. In the Serengeti, panthers have been seen to snare prey by hopping down on it from trees

The panther follows its prey and attempts to approach as close as could reasonably be expected, normally inside 5 m (16 fit) to the objective, lastly jumps on it and murders it by suffocation. It slaughters little prey with a chomp on the rear of the neck, yet holds bigger creatures by the throat and chokes them.

Most panthers maintain a strategic distance from individuals, however people may every so often be focused as prey. Most sound panthers lean toward wild prey to people, yet harmed, debilitated, or battling felines or those with a deficiency of normal prey may depend on chasing people and become acclimated to it. Albeit typically somewhat littler than a human, a grown-up panther is substantially more remarkable and effectively equipped for slaughtering one. Two outrageous cases happened in India: the main panther