There's no doubt this brazen, beautiful Javan leopard is a male, and he doesn't show any obvious signs of stress ? despite being recently added to the Red List of endangered species.
This prima donna Panthera pardus melas was caught relaxing by a camera trap in Indonesia's Mount Halimun Salak National Park by Age Kridalaksana, an ecologist working with the Center for International Forestry Research.
You can see the leopard come to life in a time-lapse video created from the camera images. Kridalaksana and his colleagues hope to use their new-found knowledge of the big cat's range to work out how best to manage his habitat.
The number of leopards on Java is estimated at 250 to 700, and on average each animal prowls a range of about 1000 hectares. But the island is losing 2000 hectares of rainforest each year to loggers and other causes, and the national park itself has already lost a quarter of its original area ? it's now down to 113,000 hectares. "If their habitat continues to shrink, they could face increasing competition for food and shelter," says Ken Sugimura, head of the project.
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