New record of strawberry leopard (<i>Panthera pardus</i>) in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

New record of strawberry leopard (Panthera pardus) in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

Published:2024-07 Issue:7 Volume:14 Page:
ISSN:2045-7758
Container-title:Ecology and Evolution
language:en
Short-container-title:Ecology and Evolution

Author:

Searle Charlotte E.¹²^ORCID,Strampelli Paolo¹³^ORCID,Parsais Singira N.⁴,Haule Leonard J.⁵,Olesyapa Kandey K.⁴,Salum Nasri D.⁴,Hape Germanus⁶,Elisa Manase⁶^ORCID,Mathayo Daniel⁶,Kaduma Joseph²,Malulu Neema²,Mkaka Nyasatu²,Robert Justine²,Ikanda Dennis⁵,Mtoka Samuel⁵,Doody Kathryn⁷,Lobora Alex L.⁵^ORCID,Dickman Amy J.¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Biology University of Oxford Tubney UK

2. Lion Landscapes Iringa Tanzania

3. Panthera New York New York USA

4. Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA) Morogoro Tanzania

5. Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) Arusha Tanzania

6. Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) Arusha Tanzania

7. Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) Frankfurt Germany

Abstract

AbstractStrawberry or red leopards are a rare colour morph of leopard (Panthera pardus) characterised by spot markings that are red or brown instead of black, thought to be a result of a mutation in the tyrosinase‐related protein (TYRP1) gene. We report the first record of this phenotype on the African continent outside of South Africa, from Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania. One female leopard with strawberry colouration was documented out of 373 individual leopards (0.3%) identified through camera trap surveys conducted from 2020 to 2022 over a combined area of more than 4600 km2 in the Nyerere‐Selous landscape.

Funder

National Geographic Society

KfW Entwicklungsbank

Darwin Initiative

Natural Environment Research Council

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.11542

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