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Indochinese leopard : ウィキペディア英語版 | Indochinese leopard
The Indochinese leopard (''Panthera pardus delacouri'') is a leopard subspecies native to mainland Southeast Asia and southern China. In Indochina, leopards are rare outside protected areas and threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation as well as poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. The trend of the population is suspected to be decreasing. == Characteristics ==
There appears to be a disjunction around the Kra Isthmus, where the population changes from predominantly black forms south of the Isthmus to predominantly spotted forms north of the Isthmus. Records from camera-trapping studies conducted at 22 locations in Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand between 1996 and 2009 show that only melanistic leopards were present in samples south of the Isthmus.〔Kawanishi, K., Sunquist, M. E., Eizirik, E., Lynam, A. J., Ngoprasert, D., Wan Shahruddin, W. N., Rayan, D. M., Sharma, D. S. K., Steinmetz, R. (2010) ''Near fixation of melanism in leopards of the Malay Peninsula.'' Journal of Zoology, Volume 282 (3): 201–206〕 In the dense tropical forest habitat in part of their range, melanism is quite common, and black leopards have a selective advantage for ambush.〔Majerus, M. E. N. (1998) ''Melanism: evolution in action.'' New York: Oxford University Press.〕
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