An Amur leopardess has been found dead just two days after a new census reported that just 25 to 34 Amur leopards remain alive in the wild (only 7 of them female).

The killing of a reproductively capable female puts the threatened carnivore even further from the hundred or more individuals scientists say are needed to sustain its wild population.

It sounded like a joke from the start

Come watch a 100-meter race on a grass track pitting

cheetah, against one of Africa's fastest human beings

Maya, right, a young dotted jaguar, walks by the side of her mother in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park

east of Budapest, Hungary

It is the first jaguar to be born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years.