Far Eastern leopards attacked dogs in Primorsky Krai

Rare Far Eastern leopards, according to preliminary data, attacked dogs in three villages in Primorye. This was reported by the Amur Tiger Center in its Telegram channel on December 26.

"A dog in Andreevka in Khasansky district and several other dogs in other places were run over by a leopard. Everything happened in Andreyevka on December 22... We managed to find one trace. Its size and shape suggest that it is not a tiger," the center said.

They also pointed to the evidence of the leopard's work: the dog was not taken off the chain together with the collar, as a tiger would do, that is, the animal is weaker.

According to the center, on December 6, the predator got on CCTV cameras near the recreation center "Riviera", but then he passed by, and no cases of attack on dogs were recorded.

At the same time, eyewitnesses noticed the leopard on Risovaya Street on December 21, and the next day local residents found the corpse of a dog.

"To establish that it was definitely a leopard, including the exhumation of the bodies of dogs was carried out, the traces of fangs, the distance between them, other damages were examined," - said in the "Amur Tiger".

Earlier, on November 14, in the Olginsky district of Primorsky Krai for the first time in 54 years spotted a Far Eastern leopard. The Amur Tiger Center said that the main principle in their work on tiger conservation is not the protection of a particular species "in a vacuum", but attention to the entire ecosystem in which it lives.