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Caturday Special: The Leopard, Panthera pardus

Look at this beautiful boy! You may notice a slightly thicker, more muscular neck than a lot of cats. All the better for dragging prey into trees! The textbook stout front end, where cats use their heavy, muscular upper-body to drag their prey down before going for the killing bite. A beautiful, long-ish tail. You can see this cat is adapted for all sorts of conditions. It’s like the small 4×4 of…