The Clouded Leopard is an amazing animal. To watch this animal is amazing, The Leopard looks so graceful. The markings on the clouded leopard are really interesting. While there are several types of Leopard the clouded leopard has to be my favourite. Find out more about the clouded leopard at this lens.

The clouded leopard looks like one of the "big cats" in miniature, having the powerful, robust build of a large cat. It has a head and body length of 82 - 99 cm (32 - 39") and weighs 11 - 19 kg (24 - 42 lb). Its coat is grayish or yellowish, with dark markings ("clouds") in shapes such as circles, ovals, and rosettes. The forehead, legs, and base of the tail are spotted, and the remainder of the tail is banded. The tail is long, the legs are stout, and the paws are broad. The clouded leopard is most closely associated with primary evergreen tropical rainforest, but it also makes use of other types of habitat, such as relatively open, dry tropical forest, mangrove forest, secondary and logged forest, grassland and scrub.

The diet of the clouded leopard is thought to include a variety of arboreal and terrestrial vertebrates, such as orangutan, young sambar deer, barking deer, mouse deer, bearded pig, palm civet, gray leaf monkey, and porcupine. Fish, birds and poultry are sometimes taken. The clouded leopard is highly adapted for an arboreal life, but it has also been observed exhibiting terrestrial behavior. Similarly, although it is generally considered to be primarily nocturnal, it is sometimes also active during the daytime. The clouded leopard swims well and has been found on small offshore islands. Clouded leopards are believed to be solitary animals except during the breeding season.

The clouded leopard is found from central Nepal in the eastern foothills of the Himalayas through southern China and most of southeast Asia to the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia). Little is known about its status in any part of its geographic range, but recent records suggest a thin but widespread distribution.