Javan leopard

Javan leopards are confined to the Indonesian island of Java.

The Javan leopard was initially described as being black with dark black spots and silver-grey eyes.

Javan leopards will also look for food in close by villages and have been known to prey on domestic dogs, chickens, and goats.

The Javan leopard is not specifically managed in captive breeding programs in Europe and America.

Traditions associated King Siliwangi with the tiger and sometimes the black and white Javan leopard.

Javan leopards have either a normal spotted coat, or a recessive phenotype resulting in an all black coat.

Javan leopards are threatened by loss of habitat, prey base depletion and poaching due to human population growth and agricultural expansion.

The Indonesian zoos of Ragunan and Surabaya also keep Javan leopards.

The Javan leopards likely feel the continuing tremors, said Tri Prasetyo, who runs the park, and are seeking safer ground.

In 2013, one male Javan leopard was transferred from Tierpark Berlin to Prague Zoo.

Examples are besra, green peafowl, Javan rusa, Sumatran dhole, crab-eating macaque, marbled cat and Javan leopard.

Similar to Ujung Kulon National Park, the forest hosts tropical and rare animals and trees, including many Rusa (genus) Javan leopard and monkeys.

The park is host to 26 species of mammals, including the endangered banteng, Sumatran dhole, Indian muntjac, Java mouse-deer, fishing cat, Javan leopard and Javan lutung.

In 2005, Gunung Halimun National Park was enlarged to three times its original size for restoration of the Javan leopard, the Javan gibbon, and the Javan hawk-eagle.

Other mammals include Javan leopard, leopard cat, Indian muntjac, Java mouse-deer, Sumatran dhole, Malayan porcupine, Sunda stink badger, and yellow-throated marten.

The Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas) is a leopard subspecies confined to the Indonesian island of Java and classified as critically endangered by IUCN since 2008.

As of December 2011, there are two male and one female Javan leopard in the German Tierpark Berlin, and one male and one female in the Jakarta zoo.

The 35 species of mammal include Banteng, Silvery gibbon, Javan lutung, Crab-eating macaque, Javan leopard, Java mouse-deer and Rusa deer, Smooth-coated Otter.

Yet conservationists have been slow to consider these tropical hideaways when keeping tabs on the distribution of threatened animals such as Sumatran orangutans and Javan leopards, according to a recent Princeton University study in the journal Folia Primatologica.

Molecular research has suggested that Javan leopards are craniometrically distinct from leopards from the rest of Asia, and are a distinct taxon that split off from other Asian leopards hundreds of thousands of years ago.