The Leopards are over a wider area today than any of the other large cats. They live throughout parts of Asia Minor and the Middle East to India, Pakistan, China, Siberia, much of the mainland of Southeast Asia and the islands of Java and Sri Lanka.
	They live in most areas with a reasonable amount of cover, a good supply of prey animals, and freedom from excessive persecution. They could be in tropical rain forests to barren deserts. The Leopard is the most widespread member of the cat family in the world.

		The coat is highly variable, though essentially black spots on a cub to pale brown background. Typically, the spots are small on the head. They are larger on the belly and limbs, and are arranged in cosset patterns on the back, flanks, and upper limbs.
	The Leopards diet consists of reptiles, birds, small mammals, and occasionally small carnivores including  cheetahs and bat-eared foxes.

		A Clouded Leopard is related to the leopard. They mostly live in India, South China, Nepal, Burma, Indochina to Sumatra and Borneo, possibly also Taiwan. They also live in subtropical primary and secondary evergreen forests up to altitudes of 2,000m 96,500ft. Their coat is tawny or silvery gray although black and whitish individuals have been reported; range "cloud shaped" ellipses along the flank strongly edged in black, with solid ovals and other spots along the limbs and body.
	Snow Leopards are related to the clouded leopard and normal leopards. They have a patchy occurrence across the high mountains of Central Asia, and from the Himalayas to South and West Mongolia to South Russia.

The Snow Leopard's coat is long, thick, smoky-gray tinged with yellow, patterned spots with dark gray rosettes and black spots. Their tail is long, thick, and heavily furred. The ear is pinnate black edged. The  snow leopard's coat gets lighter in the winter. They can live up to twenty-one years in captivity.

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