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Beautiful male leopard at zoo, looking at tourists in Zoologischer Stadtgarten, Karlsruhe, Germany. The North-Chinese leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis), also known as North China leopard, is a leopard subspecies native to northern China. The North-Chinese leopard was first described on the basis of a single tanned skin, which was fulvous above and pale beneath with large roundish, oblong black spots on the back and limbs, and small black spots on the head.