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The habit of hunting leopards at night
Leopards hunt only at night and spend the day sleeping among the vegetation, in caves or other animals, often on the branch of a tree to climb with agility that despite the size they have.
The leopard is one of 4 cats in the Panthers group, along with the lion, tiger and jaguar, characterized by a modification of the hybrid bone that enables them to roar.
For the leopard, the tree is both a resting place, where hunting and where you store your food. From the top of the tree, the leopard can ambush their prey and also leave food out of reach of scavengers.
Their favorite prey are monkeys and some species of small to medium sized antelopes, zebras and cattle among others. No chance to catch this type of prey, also eat field mice, squirrels and other small animals, or even fruit. Usually fear the presence of human beings.
They are solitary animals except in breeding season. The gestation period lasts about three months and the female can have one to six cubs, but the most common are two or three.
Usually is often confused with the cheetah, with which it shares a very similar, but which differs greatly in both physical characteristics and in their character, the cheetah being distinctly less aggressive than the leopard.

