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RE: Pardalis babcocki or Pardalis pardal

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Posted by: simias at Mon Sep 11 10:38:38 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by simias ]  
   

You really can't tell for certain. Important to remember that leopards grow very large in the north and also south in Africa; we don't really understand pardalis taxonomy well. p. pardalis in the far south is often (not always) large; 'babcocki' from Kenya are small, but 'babcocki' from Somalia can be as large as p.pardalis.

I have found that so. african p. paradalis are more likely to have large dark blotches on the plastron, whereas e. africans tend to have plain yellow plastrons. But this is not always reliable.

   

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