Looking at Leopards

 

1976: African Animals

Somewhere in Liberia's dense forests this leopard prowls, its agility and  physiology are also perfect for climbing trees. The leopards in West Africa are geographically isolated, once abundant their numbers have dwindled and become fragmented.

1981: Birth Centenary of Kalman Kitteberger (explorer and zoologist)

The largest density of leopards in Africa are in Zambia and South Africa

2002: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (Illustrator - Izhar Cohen)

How did the leopard got its spots (and the Ethiopian dark skin)?  The short short answer is  here

2001 Children's Books

 

Introducing Leopold the Leopard who is woken by the rising sun, but is the only one awake, so he decides to climb a tree to visit the sun. He climbs to the top meeting lots of friends on the way, but not the sun, which has risen too high in the sky. This is the story of  'Leopold and the Sun' by Stephan Brulhart. The stamp was used on a cover for the 2002 Geneva Book Fair.

Sunday Stamps A-Z - L for Leopard, Liberia and little Leopold - leap now to See It On A Postcard 

Space

 

1973: Moon Flight of Apollo 16

Who imagined that when Liberia issued this mini sheet, the year after Apollo 16 landed on the Moon, that the footprints Schmitt made and challenged the next generation to step into would be the last made on the Moon.  The stamp shows the mission badge with the Greek sun god Apollo, American eagle touching the moon. Saturn and a galaxy are in the background.

1972: 500th Birth Anniversary of Copernicus

Liberia  imagining the next step to Mars and why not for the USSR had put Mars 2 and 3 into orbit around the planet and the USA was orbiting with Mariner 9 in 1971. Today there are eight objects orbiting Mars. The next step?

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - 'Your Choice' -  See It On A Postcard