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Hows this for a trail cam picture ![[Linked Image]](http://www.jesseshunting.com/photopost/data/500/241e67cbdf4c96d9622d27aff4837b96.jpg)
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Very cool. Never heard of one before.
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JJ
Where was that (helluva unusual) pic taken?
Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking though it?
Searched the vastness for a something you have lost?
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It was in Thabazimbi
I have seen only 2 other King Leopard in my life, one was mounted in a museum in London. I really thought they totally screwed up the mount putting a King Cheetah skin on a Leopard mannikin as some kind of 1800's mistake.
However there were no mannikins in the 1800's and the skin when looked at close was clearly a leopard, not a cheetah. The King Cheetah is really about the best looking cat hide ranking right up there with the Snow leopard. However the King leopard is simply beautiful.
Funny, in my whole life I have seen three, one live one, and one mounted in a museum. Then this picture, but still only a photo. It's not cryptozoology but pretty darn close.
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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If you saw one live, would you shoot it or let it go?
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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yep.... just a color mutation....no different than an albino or black deer....
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Hopefully he'll wander over the the Bubye Conservancy in Zim around the middle of August of 2015.... 
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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can i be put in your suitcase?
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Are you a 36F?...didn't think so, so sorry, no 
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Ive seen pics of King Cheetahs..didnt even know there was such a thing as a king leopard...pretty cool 
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Are you a 36F?...didn't think so, so sorry, no chit and my wife is only a B so i dont even have proper bribing material 
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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JJ BTW i applaud you, you actually brought up something i didnt know existed and i actually have a few cryptozoology texts that are the real deal in that they talk about critters like the king cheetah, that ox that was discovered in Vietnam 10 years ago and those types of cryptozoology critters and not focus on things like bigfoot....
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I have seen the cheetah before, but never the leopard version. Would certainly love to have one like that show up on bait with a leopard permit in my pocket.
Has anyone shot a king leopard or cheetah? I've only ever seen pictures of live ones.
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King Cheetahs are definitely real and definitely rare. If I recall correctly something like only 50 are known to exist. Don't hold me to it but here is a link to the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center where I saw one. HESC
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