For the first part of life, a leopard cub’s world is largely its mother: where she hides it, what she teaches it and the territory through which she leads it.
Family life is usually temporary
Leopards are generally solitary once independent, but mothers and cubs form the important exception. Cubs spend their early life learning how to move, avoid danger and eventually hunt.
Growing up changes everything
A cub becomes a juvenile, then a sub-adult, and eventually an adult with its own routes, habits and history. That is why life stage matters in this archive.
Wild bit: every adult leopard once had a stage when it was just trying to keep up with its mother.