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Distribution and Habitat
The Anatolian leopard was first described on the basis of a skin of a leopard that
was shot in the extreme west of Asia Minor, near Izmir in Turkey. Anatolian
leopards are thought to have ranged in the Aegean and western parts of Turkey
but were not known to be present in the Black Sea region (Wikipedia).
Since surveys were not carried out in western Turkey until the mid-1980s,
biologists doubted whether leopards still survived in this part of Anatolia.
Sighting reports from the environs of Alanya in the south of the Lycian peninsula
suggested that a scattered population existed between Finike, Antalya and
Alanya in the early 1990s. Fresh faecal pellets found in Termessos National
Park in 1992 were attributed to an Anatolian leopard. A decade later, no signs of
the presence of leopards were detected in the Termessos National Park.
Interviews conducted with local people and national park personnel did not
corroborate the presence of leopards in this area (Wikipedia).

A Zoologist taking measurements of the dead Anatolian leopard which is lying on the
ground after being killed by a shepherd on 03.11.2013 in Diyarbakır's Çınar district,
Turkey.
http://fotogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/galeridetay/75095/2/10/leopari-oldurmenincezasi-belli-oldu
Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 121 – January 2015