North Chinese Leopard » Wildlife Heritage Foundation

North Chinese Leopard
27-11-2008

Hallo everybody,

glad having found this great forum, here is my thread to start up: Is there someone in this Forum who is familiar with the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Smarden,Ashford ? I would like to know more about the plans in taking part on the EEP for the North Chinese Leopard. Some time ago i read in a newspaper that they recieved a young male chinese leopard called "Tairi" from Zoo Paris. Unfortunately I can´t get more information about this on the official site of the wildlife heritage foundation. Now I´ve heard that one of our two Chinese Leopards here in Karlsruhe is planned to go to an Zoo in England. Are there other Zoos in the united kingdom except the whf which keep north chinese leopards at the moment or plan to do so ?

Looking forward to your posts.

Best regards

Daniel

27-11-2008

Welcome to ZooChat Daniel.

Howletts Zoo have a pair I think. I've not seen them in the UK fior quite a while now.

27-11-2008

Wildlife Heritage Foundation has 1.1 (female from Tierpark Berlin). Howletts has a single male.

27-11-2008

I believe the Howletts one is a female.

28-11-2008

OK. That's possible. Either way, its just a single animal.

28-11-2008

ISIS says it's a male. but then again ISIS says Chester's black ostrich is a female.

28-11-2008

WHF have a young female North Chinese Leopard called Atara in an adjoining enclosure. I don't think they have been introduced to each other, if you get what I mean

Tairi is being very shy and stays inside his sleeping den most days, however Atara is getting braver and was out on her platform yesterday and didn't run away from a few people on a photograhy group.

30-11-2008

I think the two leopards from Tierpark Berlin are siblings, so lets hope, they won't breed. According to the entry of the North Chinese leopard in the zootierliste, there are just these two holdings.

10-12-2008

North chinese leopard "Tingting" has left Zoo Karlsruhe on Tuesday. I hope to get some information soon about her well-being now living in Ashford.

10-12-2008

excuse my asking, but in what ways do the north chinese leopards differ physically from other subspecies (like the persian leopards are larger, or amur have slightly thicker fur etc)?

10-12-2008

'The North Chinese leopard is a medium sized leopard. The rosette pattern of the North Chinese leopard almost resembles a jaguar pattern. It has longer fur than other leopard subspecies and has the darkest coat of all leopard subspecies.'

Taken from wikipedia but its a start I guess.

12-12-2008

thanks i guess i should of googled it first

12-12-2008

A little off topic but in ISIS's defense, there are some female ostriches that have developed male colorations. There is one such female at Disney Animal Kingdom.

12-12-2008

I was actually told the black Ostrich was female by a Chester keeper!

Just checked the 2007 annual report which backs up what I was told.

12-12-2008

Old females acquiring male plumage happens occassionally in some other bird species too, like pheasants and waterfowl. Back to Chinese Leopards......