Amur Heilong and Amur Leopard

Alert ! Alert !This fact is mindblowing 🤯,Did you know that according to https://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/Amur leopards can run up to 37 miles per hour and are also really good climbers !The Amur Leopard can grow up to 6 to 7 feet and 70 to 105 pounds cited by https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ that means this cat is big ! https://www.worldwildlife.org/ tells us “Amur leopards have a paler coat than most subspecies of leopards and large dark widely spaced rosettes(pattern) with thick unbroken ring.”That means this leopard has like a light tan leopard skin with rosettes.The Amur leopard eats deer, boar, badgers, hares, birds, mice according to https://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/ in the wild . One of my favorite facts about the amur leopard is from https://www.wwf.org.uk that states that the amur leopard is probably the rarest big cat in the world 😱!

Alert an another interesting fact about this leopard is that they have 3 foot long bushy tails that they use to wrap themselves up like a blanket ( https://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org/) 🙀.The amur Leopard live is the amur heilong located in northeastern china and the russian far east according to https://www.worldwildlife.org/  ( that's where there name comes from!).According to https://www.rosamondgiffordzoo.org “Amur leopards are solitary(single) mammals and can have territories between 19-116 square miles.That is up to 56,000 football fields !”.Amur leopards like lots and lots of space.The average time an amur leopard stays with its mom is only 2 years stated by  https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ .That might seem like less but that is like spending around 20 to 15 percent of your time with your family.Another cool fact about the amur leopard is that they help protect us and the Amur tigers(siberian tiger)this is cool because protecting them helps us 🤔(https://www.worldwildlife.org/ )!

Did you know Amur Heilong is 380 million acres of protected land in northeast Asia. It is home of the amur leopard and Amur tiger, some of the most endangered wild cats. According to worldwildlife.org “Amur heilong has the most biologically diverse temperate rainforest in the world”. The region also has mountains such as Burkhan Khaldun, birthplace of Genghis Khan. Amur heilong  has a river that holds a lot of Russian immigrants and indigenous groups. According to worldwildlife.org “the amur river is home to the world's largest salmon at 150 pounds”.

According to asiapacific.panda.org, “the Amur river is the largest river in northeast Asia and is the biggest free flowing river in the world” and according to storymaps.arcgis.com “the amur river is the largest undammed river left on the continent Asia”. Amur heilong is home to some silent assassins but they are very hard to find. It's the Amur tiger and Amur leopard. The Amur leopard is the 2nd most endangered animal in the world. There are about 100 left .The animals that should hide are the Amur salmon. They are good snacks for the animals in Amur heilong.Some things these unique animals do to survive the winter temperatures like “the Amur leopard grows a fur coat that goes up to 7.5 cm long in the winter” and for “the amur tiger has extra fur on their paw that act like a snow boot protecting their paws from the snow”. People can benefit from Amur heilong because of the river which provides them with plenty of fish to eat and live off of.