Molecular tracking and prevalence of the red colour morph restricted to a harvested leopard population in South Africa
Laura Tensen,
Gerrie Camacho,
John Power
et al.
Abstract:The red leopard (Panthera pardus) colour morph is a colour variant that
occurs only in South Africa, where it is confined to the Central
Bushveld bioregion. Red leopards have been spreading over the past 40
years, which raises the speculation that the prevalence of this
phenotype is related to low dispersal of young individuals owing to high
off-take in the region. Intensive selective hunting tends to remove
large resident males from the breeding population, which gives young
males the chance to mate with resi… Show more
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