Black leopards were thought to be more common in Travancore and in the hills of southern India than in other parts of the country. īy the late 19th century, the occurrence of black and spotted leopard cubs in the same litter had been repeatedly recorded in India. Cuvier proposed the name Felis melas, the Javan leopard ( P. In 1809, Georges Cuvier described a black leopard kept in the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes that had been brought from Java.
In 1794, Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer proposed the scientific name Felis fusca for this cat, the Indian leopard ( P. In 1788, Jean-Claude Delamétherie described a black leopard that was kept in the Tower of London and had been brought from Bengal. Markings on a female black leopard at the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve, Kromdraai
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