{"id":115198,"date":"2023-03-08T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=115198"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:51:52","slug":"photography-amur-leopard-panthera-pardus-orientalis-rotterdam-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=115198","title":{"rendered":"photography Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) Rotterdam Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Photography Amur leopard (<em>Panthera pardus orientalis<\/em>) Rotterdam Zoo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With only around 120 adults left in the wild, the <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopard (<em>Panthera pardus orientalis<\/em>)<\/a> could be the most endangered big cat on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amur-leopard-Panthera-pardus-orientalis-DSC_6649-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amur-leopard-Panthera-pardus-orientalis-DSC_6649-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amur-leopard-Panthera-pardus-orientalis-DSC_6649-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amur-leopard-Panthera-pardus-orientalis-DSC_6649-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amur-leopard-Panthera-pardus-orientalis-DSC_6649-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopard (<em>Panthera pardus orientalis<\/em>)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not many people ever see an <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopard<\/a> in the wild. Not surprising, as there are so few of them, but a shame considering how beautiful they are. Thick, luscious, black-ringed coats and a huge furry tails they can wrap around themselves to keep warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopard<\/a> is a nocturnal animal that lives and hunts alone \u2013 mainly in the vast forests of Russia and China. During the harsh winter, the hairs of that unique coat can grow up to 7cm long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years the Amur leopard hasn&#8217;t just been hunted mercilessly, its homelands have been gradually destroyed by unsustainable logging, forest fires, road building, farming, and industrial development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But recent research shows conservation work is having a positive effect, and wild <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopard<\/a> numbers are believed to have increased to at least 120 adults, in Russia and north-east China. The Amur leopard, however, still remains one of the rarest and most critically endangered leopard subspecies in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopards<\/a> are in captivity, primarily in zoos in North America, Europe, and former Soviet Union countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an impression of animal photography of&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=114954\">Amur leopards<\/a> in Diergaarde Blijdorp (Blijdorp Zoo) in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) Rotterdam Zoo With only around 120 adults left in the wild, the Amur leopard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berichten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144618,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115198\/revisions\/144618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}