Leopard vs Pather - What's the difference?
leopard | pather |
Panthera pardus , a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.
* 1990 , Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species , 1992,
* 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel ,
* 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine ,
Either of two similar large cats native to Asia, also with spotted coats: Neofelis nebulosa'' (clouded leopard) or ''Uncia uncia (snow leopard).
* 2005 , Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations ,
Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
(heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
As nouns the difference between leopard and pather
is that leopard is leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, panthera pardus) while pather is (computer games) a non-player character that walks a repeating path.leopard
English
(wikipedia leopard)Alternative forms
* lybard * libbardNoun
(en noun)page 284,
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard' was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of '''leopards''' to recognize that, even in the absence of a '''leopard''', a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a ' leopard itself.
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- The leopard (Panthera pardus'' or ''Felis pardus cf tulliana ) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
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- Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
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- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards'—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded ' leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.