Ali Asghar Motahari told reporters on Thursday morning that the corpse of Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica or Panthera pardus saxicolor) was found by the local people in a border region of Maneh and Samalqan, and Raz and Jergelan; “the corpse was transferred to the Department of Environment local office for more investigation of causes of death; the corpse seems to be a month-old and part of it has been eaten by other carnivorous animals in the region; of the whole body of the leopard, only skull, ribs, and some bones are left,” he detailed.
