Range size of southern Kalahari leopards

Based upon radio-tracking, and using kernel analysis techniques, the mean range size of three adult male leopards Panthera pardus was 2182.37 +/- 491.628 km(2), that of five adult females 488.70 +/- 292.893 km(2), and that of a single subadult male 1323.80 km(2). These ranges are considerably larger than for leopards elsewhere, and may reflect the aridity and prey-poor nature of the southern Kalahari. The subadult male dispersed over a linear distance of 112.6 km from its presumably natal area to where it established a new range.