Tag: Leopards

September 25, 2020

TWS2020: Angola mammals avoid humans after 30-year civil war

The seasoned trackers sat on special chairs fastened to the front of a jeep moving slowly through the savannas of Angola’s Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga national parks. They eyed the ground...

August 12, 2019

Safari-goers help conservationists through a camera lens

Wildlife biologist Kasim Rafiq was studying the behavior and space use of leopards in Botswana in order to find out how they were interacting with other carnivores. While a main...

July 20, 2018

Opening conference plenary recognizes conservation successes

Registration for The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is now open! Visit twsconference.org for details, or register now by logging in to Your Membership and clicking on the Conference tab. The opening...

April 26, 2018

Does media presence create false sense of species’ success?

The images of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger, Cheetos’ Chester Cheetah and Toys R Us’ Geoffrey the Giraffe surround us all the time. But how does the widespread presence...

July 21, 2016

TWS member helps imperiled Indochinese leopards

It’s a hot summer day and Jan Kamler is about to set out on the rugged, hilly terrains of Malaysia where he will spend two weeks scouring the region for...

May 4, 2016

Wild leopards less abundant than thought

While researchers previously assumed leopards are abundant in the wild as a result of their adaptability, new research suggests this may not be the case. In what’s believed to be...