The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is a mid-sized felid from Africa and Asia. It is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2 and both DS games.
Description[]
The leopard is the smallest and most widespread of the five Panthera or "Big Cat" species, ranging across Africa and Southern Asia. Although the leopard physically resembles the Jaguar, it is smaller, more lightly built and the rosette spots on its coat, used to camouflage it from prey, are smaller and don't have spots inside them. There are eight subspecies of leopard, which differ in range, coat-length and color. The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) has a comparatively thin coat of fur and is lighter in color than other leopards.
The leopard can live in a variety of habitats, from savannahs to tropical rainforests and is a solitary animal that lives in large territories. Leopards are skilled hunters and will eat a variety of prey, such as mammals like antelopes and monkeys, as well as birds, fish, insects and reptiles. Leopards hunt in various ways, such as pouncing on prey from within trees or stalking prey and chasing them. The leopard is a skilled climber and will often take any food they have caught up a tree to eat it without being disturbed by most other predators.
Zoo Tycoon[]
The leopard is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon and is available in the base game. In Freeform mode, it is not adoptable until May 1st.
The leopard is a Savannah animal, and also requires a small amount of dirt, fresh water, as well as a larger amount of Rainforest terrain in its exhibit. It is one of only a few animals in-game to use a toy, using the researchable Cat Climbing Tree. Their favorite foliage is the Baobab Tree but they also get a lot of suitability from Thorn Acacia Trees, requiring a few Thorn Acacia Tree clusters to maximize their habitat suitability alongside Medium Savannah Rocks and a toy and shelter, their favourite shelter being the Rock Cave, which needs to be researched in order to obtain. Leopards can also maximize their habitat suitability by having three shelters, and three Cat Climbing Trees along with a single cluster of Thorn Acacia Trees within their foliage requirement, or two clusters of Thorn Bushes instead. Leopards are also one of only a few animals to gain suitability from having more animals of the same type in their enclosure, another being the American Bighorn Sheep.
Black Leopard[]
Black leopards or Black Panthers are individual leopards with a genetic mutation known Melanism. Melanism is caused by the over production of the black pigment melanin in the skin and fur. In leopards, it is caused by a double recessive gene, meaning that both parents must pass on the mutated gene in order to have black cubs. In the wild, black leopards are common in the equatorial rainforest of Malaya and the tropical rainforest on the slopes of some African mountains, such as Mount Kenya. However, black leopards are still the most common in captivity due to selective breeding in zoos and exotic pet trades over decades.
Zoo Tycoon[]
The black leopard is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon and is available in the base game. It must be researched in order to be adopted. It is considered a separate animal to the regular leopard, as the game does not support colour variants. The two animals cannot interbreed or co-exist.
Unlike the leopard, the black leopard is a tropical rainforest animal and does not require any fresh water in its enclosure, liking grass and dirt instead as additional terrain requirements. It also uses the Cat Climbing Tree and its favourite shelter is the Rock Cave. Breeding the black leopard will earn the player a bonus reward of $10,000 for successfully breeding an endangered animal.
The black leopard's favorite foliage is the Foxtail Palm Tree which can be clustered to achieve a higher habitat suitability. The black leopard is an easy animal to get a high habitat suitability, able to achieve a habitat suitability of 100% using only its default habitat requirements. Unlike the leopard, the black leopard does not gain any suitability from the number of black leopards that are present in its enclosure.
Zoo Tycoon 2[]
The black leopard is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon 2, and is available in the Black Leopard & Stuffed Prey Dummy download, which was released just a few weeks after Zoo Tycoon 2 launched, sometime in November 2004. In Campaign and Challenge mode, it is unlocked at 3 stars of fame.
The black leopard is a tropical rainforest animal but can also be placed in the grassland, savannah, temperate forest and wetlands biomes, though likes them to a lesser extent. The black leopard can also unusually tolerate all four Marine Mania biomes due to a coding oversite and requires a large exhibit to be happy. The black leopard is unique in that it is the only animal with a reflective detail texture in the game, giving it a blue shine in its coat. Like most cats in Zoo Tycoon 2, unrelated black leopard males will fight each other, resulting in one dying. Females however, will not fight. Like all cats in the game, the black leopard is a highly entertaining animal, able to use a variety of enrichment items including various balls, the Holiday Present (Beef), all Live Food enrichment, Stuffed Prey Dummy, Cat Climber and Scratching Post. For shelters, the black leopard can use the Rock Caves, Wooden and Concrete Shelters as well as the Shade Structure and Raised Sleeping Platform.
The black leopard, prior to the release of Endangered Species, had a patch released for it called the "Black Leopard Gift Fix" which was made to fix the black leopard's backpack gift not appearing in the Gift Cart. This patch was later incorporated into Endangered Species, rendering it obsolete and no longer obtainable, this also meant that the patch would not appear in the Downloads folder or section of the main menu unless the player installed it before installing Endangered Species, or manually installed it from an archived file.
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Class: Mammals (Mammalia)
Order: Carnivores (Carnivora) Fun Black Leopard Facts
To unlock the black leopard in challenge or campaign games, you must earn a 3-star zoo fame rating for your zoo. Like the leopard, the black leopard has spots, but they are harder to see. Leopard is the common name for a large member of the cat family that occupies a wide range of habitats and has the most extensive distribution of any of the wild species of cat, occurring throughout much of Africa and Asia. The body of an adult leopard is about 0.91 to 1.91 m (3 to 6.3 ft) long, exclusive of the 1-m (3-ft) tail. Typically the coat is pale tan, and it is marked with broken circles of black spots. Unlike the rosettes of the American jaguar, these circles have no central spot. Specimens with darker ground colors are seen, and some leopards (born in otherwise ordinary litters) are completely black and are known as black panthers. The black leopard is an agile climber and will often stalk monkeys in the trees. It hunts mainly at night. When game is scarce, a leopard will eat field mice, fruit, porcupines, baboons, or arthropods. The female bears one to six young per litter. |
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Trivia[]
- The black leopard backpack is supposed to have a reflective detail texture to it, however this was lost when the gift was converted to a bfb model in Endangered Species.
- The black leopard is one of only three downloadable animals to not be converted into a bfb model in later expansions, the other two being the Asiatic Black Bear and Addax.
Zoo Tycoon DS animals | |
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Standard Animals | African Buffalo ā¢ African Elephant ā¢ African Lion ā¢ African Warthog ā¢ American Bighorn Sheep ā¢ American Bison ā¢ Arctic Wolf ā¢ Bengal Tiger ā¢ Black Bear ā¢ Black Leopard ā¢ Black Rhinoceros ā¢ California Sea Lion ā¢ Cheetah ā¢ Chimpanzee ā¢ Clouded Leopard ā¢ Common Wildebeest ā¢ Dromedary Camel ā¢ Emperor Penguin ā¢ Gemsbok ā¢ Giant Anteater ā¢ Giant Panda ā¢ Giraffe ā¢ Gray Wolf ā¢ Greater Flamingo ā¢ Grizzly Bear ā¢ Hippopotamus ā¢ Ibex ā¢ Jaguar ā¢ Leopard ā¢ Lowland Gorilla ā¢ Mandrill ā¢ Markhor ā¢ Moose ā¢ Okapi ā¢ Olive Baboon ā¢ Ostrich ā¢ Plains Zebra ā¢ Polar Bear ā¢ Red Kangaroo ā¢ Saltwater Crocodile ā¢ Siberian Tiger ā¢ Snow Leopard ā¢ Spotted Hyena ā¢ Thomson's Gazelle ā¢ White Bengal Tiger |
Unlockable Content | Asian Elephant ā¢ Kouprey ā¢ Onager ā¢ Orangutan ā¢ Unicorn |
Zoo Tycoon 2 DS animals | |
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Standard Animals | African Elephant ā¢ Black Panther ā¢ Black Rhinoceros ā¢ California Sea Lion ā¢ Cheetah ā¢ Chimpanzee ā¢ Dolphin ā¢ Dromedary Camel ā¢ Galapagos Giant Tortoise ā¢ Giant Sable Antelope ā¢ Gray Wolf ā¢ Greater Flamingo ā¢ Grizzly Bear ā¢ Komodo Dragon ā¢ Lion ā¢ Masai Giraffe ā¢ Moose ā¢ Nile Crocodile ā¢ Ostrich ā¢ Orangutan ā¢ Polar Bear ā¢ Pygmy Hippopotamus ā¢ Red Kangaroo ā¢ Spanish Lynx ā¢ Wolverine ā¢ Zebra |
Star Animals | American Beaver ā¢ Emperor Penguin ā¢ Giant Panda ā¢ Koala ā¢ Mountain Gorilla ā¢ Sea Otter |
Amazing Animals | Saber-toothed Tiger ā¢ Triceratops ā¢ Unicorn ā¢ Yeti |