Panthera pardus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Nairobi National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Leopard in and around Nairobi National Park, and the 3 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
The leopard is the cat you have driven past without knowing it. No one has counted them reliably at a global scale, precisely because disappearing is what they do best: a big rosetted cat that lives from the Cape to the Congo to the edge of Windhoek, hunting alone, mostly at night, and hauling anything up to its own body weight vertically into a tree so lions and hyenas dine below in frustration. Males in Namibia can reach 60 to 90 kilograms. Pound for pound it is the strongest climber of the big cats, and the most adaptable: river thickets, koppies, dry mountains, it asks only for cover and prey. Seeing one is less about luck than about learning to read shade.
Do not crowd a leopard on a kill or with cubs; a leopard pushed off a cached kill may abandon it entirely.