Sri Lankan Leopard at Bioparc Valencia, 28/05/11

Just visited and labelling awful.

I'm assuming the Sri Lankan Leopard is in the main Leopard enclosure?

Seems odd to hold this sub-species in an African collection.

Last week they had one spotted (this individual) and one melanistic.

German zoo list shows both African and Sri Lankan Leopard?

I think this thread will be of interest: http://www.zoochat.com/180/leopard-exhibit-bioparc-valencia-28-05-a-220660/

(The black leopard is the 'African' according to local Zoochatter KEEPER.)

Thanks Maguari

Yes.
They keep a couple Negombo (male ) and Ines (female) Sri Lankan - but not labelled in the signage like this- we just can read "african leopard" (P.pardus) in the poster, and a African melanistic female (Mamba).

KEEPER said:

Yes.
They keep a couple Negombo (male ) and Ines (female) Sri Lankan - but not labelled in the signage like this- we just can read "african leopard" (P.pardus) in the poster, and a African melanistic female (Mamba).

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Do you know where they all came from? I read somewhere or it may have been the other collection in Spain that hold them, but didn't a Leopard come from Banham?

The Sri Lanka couple come from Dutch zoos and Mamba from France (I don't remember from which zoos )
From my knowledge just Barcelona, Santillana del Mar, two (male and female) sons of Valencia's couple, and Fuengirola has the only three zoos in Spain that keeps this subspecies.