Despite the blazing heat in the summer in the Arabian Peninsula, and the drought and shortage of water and food it suffers from, the Arabian leopard was able to adapt and survive with its bloodline in front of the threat of extinction to this day. It has appeared only four times in Saudi Arabia during the last 25 years, in 1992 in the Al Fara Mountains, 2007 a show up was recorded in Al Namas, southern Saudi Arabia, 2011 in Balharith, and in 2014 in the Numan area of Makkah.
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