Basic behavior:

- African leopards have a very broad selection of prey they like to consume in their diet; from beetles to mid-sized antelopes ranging from Thomson's gazelle to immature wildebeest calves. It readily eats carrion and often staches sizeable kills on top of trees, nightly to feed on them, preventing access to its main competitors and some scavenger species. Leopards spend their day and part of their night partially resting and scanning their surroundings on top of trees or in thick vegetation; around dusk and during most of their night they will move around their territory, scent-marking, patrolling it, and actively hunt during these night hours; they also engage in those behaviors for an hour or so during dawn. During the daytime, leopards will only hunt if they happen to stumble on a good opportunity or if it presents itself without it looking for it directly, or if the leopard is starving; otherwise, most of the hunting will be done during night time.

- African leopards are solitary animals, for the most part, adults-only associate with one another for mating purposes and the young become independent when they reach a sub-adult stage and start to hunt for themselves. Female territories overlap with those of males, generally having one male claiming multiple females. However, it happens that males may share the same interest for one particular female and in which case the encounters are vicious. 

- African leopards do not exhibit any kind of mating period or birthing period; they however present the typical feline mating behavior with the female being closely followed by the male while encouraging mating by rubbing heads and turning quickly to expose her backside to transition to a crouch and encouraging the male to mate. Males will generally roar as well when mating to warn off other males of his presence and like previously mentioned if two males were to happen to find each other a fight is likely to happen with the winner claiming the female as his own.

- Leopards are "The" ambush land predator in Africa, unlike lions or cheetahs which rely on group cooperation and/or can traverse larger distances faster, leopards rely entirely on pouncing the prey before it can start fleeing. They generally require to get in a range of 20 m to 5 m preferably to maximize their chances of catching the quarry. Despite their lack of social skills, mother leopards and their young are known to be able to cooperatively hunt together once said offspring reaches sub-adult.

- African leopards out rank on an individual level a lot of carnivores, however most of their competitors are in groups and from 7 large carnivores they only outrank cheetahs. Leopards will run away from any adult lion no matter their size, however when it comes to hyenas and painted wolves the case is a bit more puzzling, a leopardess with cubs will more likely go for the offensive than a solitary leopard or a young leopard. However it is worth noting that adult males will indeed to stand up from 1 to 2 hyenas at least or a small pack of painted wolves of 3 to 5 members, though like mentioned before they will generally flee or seek refuge in a tree. Its also worth noting that no matter the situation a leopard can always try to intimidate a foe no its size, however depending on the species if said foe goes in the offensive the guidelines are listed previously above. Scavengers like jackals and vultures are tolerated as long as they don't get too close and cheetahs and pairs of painted wolves are fair game for leopards to try to steal kills from.

- Like most African felines leopards do not like water and avoid swimming in it as much as possible, meaning if a prey decides to go in the water they either have to wait for it to get out or leave the scene. However leopards are known during dire times to venture in dry river beds or waterholes to try and catch large fish species like cat fish.