Ceylonpanther
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Does anyone know exactly how many sri lankan leopards there are in european zoos? According to the zoo tier liste there are 29 holders in Europe.
Leopard subspecies in European zoos
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Ceylonpanther
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Does anyone know exactly how many persian leopards there are in european zoos? According to the zoo tier liste there are 42 holders in Europe.
Ceylonpanther
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Does anyone know exactly how many north chinese leopards there are in european zoos? According to the zoo tier liste there are 30 holders in Europe.
The EEP listed 43 Chinese leopards in July 2022.
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Almost 60 animals.
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As of 8 March this year, the EEP population consisted of 57 animals. Including 27 males and 30 females.
Ceylonpanther
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Does anyone have list of any of these subspecies?
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Why do you want to know it?
Ceylonpanther
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Because I want to make a list with pictures for identification purposes.
Okay; so in the European Zoos there are 4 EEPs:
- Sri Lankan
- Persian
- Chinese
- Amur (kept separated by the Chinese, despite the taxonomical discussions always towering)
There are also some hybrid supposed African leopards...and other hybrids animals (especially the ones which are kept as melanistic lineage...).
Ceylonpanther
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What about Javan leopards, there only five individuals, 4 males and 1 female.
Right, also a few Javan leopards, but unfortunately no future for this wonderful subspecies.
Ceylonpanther
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Does anyone know will Tierpark Berlin breed Sinto and Sri Kandi? Or will they import more Javan leopards?
I hope so, it is after all the most threatened subspecies.
There is no plan to import any Javan leopard at the moment. The population unfortunately does not have a real future in Europe.
How does Europe have the space for four leopard programs? That seems like an extraordinary excess.
That used to be an opinion I shared but every time I've seen that come up on zoochat previously, it has been said the AZA does not have enough space to support more than one leopard subspecies. I hope that makes it more understandable why four species being held in Europe seems like many in comparison.