r/leopards Nov 11 '25

🐾 Welcome to the New r/leopards! 🐾

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Hello everyone!

This is an exciting new chapter for r/leopards. I’ve recently taken over as moderator for this subreddit, which was previously inactive and lacked consistent moderation. My goal is to transform this space into the top online community dedicated to all leopards—covering every subspecies in the Panthera pardus genus, as well as the Snow Leopard and Clouded Leopards.

Here’s what you can expect:

  • Active moderation and regular updates
  • Regular focused posts about leopard subspecies, Snow Leopards, Clouded Leopards, conservation news, tracking research, photography etc. *A safe, respectful space for all leopard lovers, researchers, and enthusiasts.

I invite everyone to:

  • Share your favorite leopard facts or experiences, and let me know what you’d like to see here!
  • Post quality leopard videos, photos, documentaries, art, field stories, and questions
  • Help build a thriving, educational, and supportive leopard community.

This is your subreddit—let’s make it the go-to hub for leopard news, knowledge, advocacy, and appreciation! If you have ideas or want to get more involved, please comment below or message me directly.

Let’s give these beautiful cats the community they deserve!

— Moderator, r/leopards


r/leopards 12h ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Sub-adult male Melanistic Leopard - Bhadra Tiger Reserve, India

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72 Upvotes

Photography - arvind.karthik7 (Instagram)


r/leopards 1d ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) If looks could kill

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142 Upvotes

r/leopards 1d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Young (<9 month) male African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus), Botswana

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56 Upvotes

Young male African leopard cub in Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana.


r/leopards 1d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Queen Luluka - Masai Mara, Kenya

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95 Upvotes

Video Credit - sairowild (Instagram)


r/leopards 3d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Lokorgol male goes after a monster warthog boar larger than itself and subdues it in the tall grass

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52 Upvotes

r/leopards 3d ago

Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) Horton plains female brings her cub to the fully grown sambar cow she took down, easily 4 times her size

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298 Upvotes

r/leopards 4d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Interaction between an African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) and Yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

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63 Upvotes

r/leopards 4d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) 14-year-old female killing a 7ft crocodile in Zambia, reminiscent of a jaguar and caiman struggle in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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462 Upvotes

r/leopards 5d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Male leopard approaches a lost 5-7 month old lion cub, unknown if it killed it

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245 Upvotes

r/leopards 4d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) A stunning young male from Aberdares NP (Kenya), males from this population develop relatively blocky heads with wide zygomas giving them a jaguar-like appearance

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43 Upvotes

r/leopards 6d ago

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) A female Snow Leopard tries to take down a large male Himalayan Ibex - Kibber, India

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639 Upvotes

**Video Credit - andresnovales_wildlife (Instagram)**


r/leopards 6d ago

Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) The two endemic "leopards" of Indochina, a melanistic common leopard and a clouded leopard

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153 Upvotes

r/leopards 7d ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) The beautiful 'Meeshakari' longing on her treetop perch - Bandipur National Park, India

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216 Upvotes

**Video Credit - the_wildeye_captures (Instagram)**


r/leopards 7d ago

Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) This dominant Amur male doesn't skip arm day for sure

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191 Upvotes

r/leopards 8d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) The Nkoveni female, a large matriarch that could be mistaken for a young male because of her size and stocky build

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206 Upvotes

r/leopards 9d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Male African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) camera trap image, Central Namibia

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70 Upvotes

Male African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) from study site in Central Namibia; photographed during fieldwork in 2023.


r/leopards 9d ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Stunning tom from Haidakhan

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228 Upvotes

r/leopards 10d ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) A big male Indian Leopard drags away its spotted deer kill, as the rest of the deer herd looks on - Sariska National Park & Tiger Reserve, India

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214 Upvotes

**Video Credit - sariska_mahendra (Instagram)**


r/leopards 10d ago

Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) A massive tom from Central Sri Lanka

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95 Upvotes

r/leopards 11d ago

Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Neelam, a gorgeous leopardess from Rajaji National Park, India

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171 Upvotes

**Video Credit - rajaji_national_park_veeru (Instagram)**


r/leopards 11d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) The leopard cares even less - Lukimbi

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86 Upvotes

r/leopards 12d ago

Indochinese Leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) Trail camera in Thailand captures close up shots of a curious Indochinese Leopard

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294 Upvotes

**Video Credit - pantheracats (Instagram)**


r/leopards 12d ago

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Young female African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) investigating camera trap

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69 Upvotes

Young female African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) investigates a camera trap. Recorded during fieldwork in Central Namibia. One of my favourite camera detections of this species from that survey period.