Whats exactly the difference between a leopard and a jaguar?
A. About 12,000 km! Leopards live in forests, jungles, plains, and savannahs throughout most of Africa and large parts of India and the Middle East. Jaguars live in the tropical rainforests of northern South America and parts of Central America. The remarkable thing is that despite the geographical distances, these two cats look so alike that even experts get fooled, sometimes. (Uh, yeah, even me!!) The leopard (Panthera pardus) is a medium-weight cat with a slim, triangular head and a lithe body. The coat pattern is rosettes – rings of spots – on the body and often a beautiful “necklace” of spots around the throat. The spots are often blurred into the background fur. The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a bigger cat with a more rounded head, especially in males, and a stocky, powerful body. The coat pattern is filled rosettes – big rings of spots with one or more spots inside, on the body, and there is no necklace. The bigger spots of a jaguar often have clean-cut margins where the backgroun
