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| Ilani, G. | |
| The spotted ambassadors of a vanishing world | |
| 1990 Israel AL (31): 16-24 | |
Until the turn of this century, leopards inhabited all the hilly and desert areas of this country. The leopards of the Carmel and the western Judean Hills disappeared in the twenties. In the Galilee, with its rocky crags and deep valleys, large leopards prowled until the sixties, until they too were hunted and poisoned to extinction. Deep in the Judean Desert and Negev Hills, places where man and his predilection for destroying animals were less in evidence, a small leopard population found refuge and survived among the steep cliffs where they fed on hyrax, ibex and porcupines. |
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