Join Malachite, a black Panther see his jungle through his eyes both day and night. Find out how each creature matters. Learn of mother nature and her powerful forces. Learn the dangers that man can bring. Fall in love with Malachite a 3 year old...
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Author Note: Remember Ora's keywords mayhave from the previous chapter That's Malachite from up above in the pictures.
Malachite's Pov I'm chunkier than the African leopard brothers and cheetah brothers of my cat-kin. My legs are long and stocky whereas theirs are lean and lanky. You wouldn't think that those legs are actually able to hold their weight till they jump into a tree especially for the leopards of African savannahs and scrublands. But they miraculously get by with their seeming-less harmless body forms. I'm bigger than the females of my kin having 30% more muscle weight. Females sometimes have green eyes. Males typically have yellow eyes. That last trait is the only thing we share with the Bengal Tigers of the Mountains of Asia. Our eye colors and size do not compare with the leopards of Africa. Like their lion and cheetah neighbors we merely share our face shape whereas our tiger neighbors have faces that are strikingly different. In North America it would be like contrasting a fox face 🦊 with a dog 🐕 face. My tail is about 25-40 inches long right now. Other big cats like Lions meet their full body size at 2 years old as do young bears. My shoulder height from the ground is 18 inches. My weight currently is 67 pounds. I looked over the rocky ledge at the frozen piece of stream that shown like a mirror. I could see my entire reflection from the blue ice including my super short heavy head and eerie yellow eyes.
The African regular spotted leopard has heftier paws compared to the rest of its body. Black leopards have tiny small leopard spots blended in seeminglessly to our black coat till the light hits it just right. Cheetahs have bigger spots and splotch spot down their neck and tail. The last mentions being true only to cheetahs who have King Cheetah coats. Currently you will not find an actually African black leopard in the wilds of Africa they simply have never been found yet. The only African black leopards known about you will find have been mostly like raised in reserves all their lives. But not me, my brothers and sisters of my territory. We live in Southwest Asia and have always been wild. There are however big black jaguars whose rosettes are crowded from within by tiny spots all clustered close together in every sing only. They can be found and have been heard of being seen in the wilderness of South America. Given what they eat their body is heftier than all of my own. Yet South American Black Jaguars hardly make the tv media.
This might actually surprise you but like cheetahs we can mate all year round. That allows for us just like deer and cheetahs do to strengthen our bloodline through multiple lines of females. Another thing that will surprise you I and my kin are far more agile than the big cats called lions and tigers. Here in Asia black leopards are way more common than you'd think being from anywhere else in the world. We are way more common than our blondish counterpart brothers. In Africa it is the complete opposite. There are very few rare black leopards that do live in the tropical wilds of Africa are probably very very sneaky and careful given that they might stay within the trees till dusk. But they have been spotted living in Ethiopia where they really would stick out like a sore thumb. I have no idea what that means. But I do understand it's a phrase that people use frequently.
