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The Persian leopard, aka Anatolian leopard or Caucasian leopard, is a subspecies of leopard that hails from the Iranian Plateau and the surrounding region from eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus to the Hindu Kush. They face the threats of habitat loss and fragmentation at the hands of expanding human settlements, […]

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