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.
Leopard DNA study in South Africa traces ancestry to ice age—and will guide conservation retrieved 16 May 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-05-leopard-dna-south-africa-ancestry.html
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