Webcam online from the Barnaul zoo, in the angle of the webcam, we can observe the aviary of the Far Eastern leopard named Elisha. He arrived at the zoo as a one-year-old tame cat from the Seversky Nature Park. In May 2021, he turned 11 years old.
Distinctive features of the Far Eastern leopard:
- Luxurious hide in various shades of red and yellow with round spots.
- The leopard's diet is small ungulates: deer, roe deer. Does not miss the opportunity to eat hares, badgers and insects.
- Night time-peak activity of the Far Eastern leopard. Hunting, hunting, and drinking-all this is only at dusk.
- Leopards jealously guard their territory and categorically do not want to share it with their fellows.
- In captivity, the predator lives for 21 years, in its natural habitat much less.
Interesting facts about the Far Eastern leopard:
- The hearing of a leopard is 5 times sharper than that of a human.
- Leopards have enough liquid that they get from food, so they do not need to drink water often.
- The leopard is able to drag a prey weighing 3 times its own weight to a high tree.
- When a person enters the territory of a leopard, the predator leaves this territory forever.