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European Ice Age leopard : ウィキペディア英語版 | European Ice Age leopard
The European Ice Age leopard or Late Pleistocene Ice Age leopard (''Panthera pardus spelaea'') was a leopard subspecies, which roamed Europe in the Late Pleistocene. It resembled the modern Persian leopard and is last recorded about 24,000 years ago. Subfossil findings indicate that it may have survived into the Holocene in southern and eastern Europe. == Description ==
The Late Pleistocene Ice Age leopard was about the size of a modern Persian leopard (''P. p. ciscaucasica''). The skull was medium-long and its characteristics are closest to modern Persian leopards. The only known depiction of a Late Pleistocene Ice Age leopard (Chauvet Cave) shows a coat pattern, similar to modern leopards. It remains unclear if the spots were organised in larger rosettes like in modern Persian leopards, or if the pattern was more primitive. In contrast to modern leopards, the belly of the depicted animal is unspotted white. Fossils of small female leopards can sometimes be confused with large male lynxes. Leopards from the cold phases (glacials) of the Late Pleistocene are usually larger than those from the warm phases (interglacials). As in modern leopards, there was a strong sexual dimorphism with males being larger than females.〔
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