
ANIMAL SUPERPOWERS: CLOUDED LEOPARDS
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Learn about animal superpowers by watching how the clouded leopard climbs.
Learn about animal superpowers by watching how the clouded leopard at the Houston Zoo climbs. A long tail, sharp claws, and flexible ankles make the clouded leopard a treetop acrobat.
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ANIMAL SUPERPOWERS: CLOUDED LEOPARDS
Clip: 7/9/2024 | 2m 58sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Learn about animal superpowers by watching how the clouded leopard at the Houston Zoo climbs. A long tail, sharp claws, and flexible ankles make the clouded leopard a treetop acrobat.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[cheerful music] - [Narrator] Some superheroes can make themselves invisible.
Clouded leopards can do this with their spots.
They have large spots that are shaped like clouds that work to help them camouflage in the treetops where they spend most of their time.
Superheroes are also known to be able to scale tall buildings and leap from rooftops.
For clouded leopards with their long tails and sharp claws, they are perfect treetop acrobats.
As they move through spots of light and shadow, their cloud shaped patterns allow them to almost disappear from view when they stand still.
Clouded leopards have sharp claws and specially designed ankles.
They can rotate their ankles more than other cat species.
This means that unlike the larger cats, they can not only climb up trees, but they can climb down trees, hang upside down, and move around much more easily and with more stealth or secrecy than other cats.
This allows them a better chance to catch food like birds and small monkeys.
In order to spy their prey, clouded leopards also have excellent binocular vision.
This super sight is crucial for judging distances as they climb and pounce on prey.
Their pupils, the black center of their eyes, are also different from any other cat's pupils.
They never get fully round like big cats, yet they never shrink to vertical slits like small cats.
Instead, they stay in an oblong shape.
[bright music] We have four clouded leopards and the two pairs both work together just like a superhero and their sidekick.
Clouded leopards usually do not like other cats in their space.
However, when a male and a female clouded leopard are paired together when they're around 1-year-old, they're more likely to get along well and make great parents.
Our older two had cubs late last year.
In the wee hours of November 12th, Suksn gave birth to two tiny cubs, Nova and Luna.
[bright music continues] Now that they're getting bigger, the duo explores their habitat and tests out all of their climbing superpowers.
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