South Africa: Leopard DNA Study in South Africa Traces Ancestry to Ice Age – and Will Guide Conservation

The Conversation Africa An ice age almost one million years ago led to a meeting between leopards from central and southern Africa that were searching for grassland. New research into the leopards’ genetics – their mitogenome – has revealed that the descendants of these two groups are the leopards found today in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province. One of the researchers, …

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