Physically, they have an average build and a height of about 5 feet, with a heavily built physique. They have proportionately short and stout legs, short rounded ears, and long whiskers. Leopards have long tails, measuring about 60-100 cm, white underneath and with spots that form incomplete bands toward the tail's end. They exhibit great variation in coat color: those living in arid regions are pale cream, yellowish to ochreous and rufous in color; those living in forests and mountains are much darker and deep golden. It's not uncommon to see full-black or white and spotted individuals as well.

While they have never had a central king to rule over them, at least not until the union with other Turao peoples, Leopards' aristocracy, called amakhosi, has always played a superior role in leadership. Indeed, the Leopard people live under a patriarchal society in which elder males are seen as householders and authoritative figures.
A little over fifty years before the Tale, an ideology of feline brotherhood began to emerge among the Leopard people. It was preached that all Feline Anthros are close kindred, as were probably their Ancestral Princes, and therefore, they too should share a common territory for the common well-being. Thus, two spokespersons were sent to the other three Feline peoples on the continent with the intent of laying the foundations for a great feline kingdom, but the results were not encouraging. While the Cheetahs were soon conquered by Rhinos, Hyenas subtly tried to take advantage of it, and lastly, Lions responded with the beheading of the spokespersons. The Leopards never forgot such a disheartening threat but remained however faithful to the feline brotherhood's idea, never declaring war, and despite all this, never setting aside that ideology, albeit reduced to a simple ontology.

The Leopards' settlements are mostly made up of wooden houses raised from the ground, similar to a small system of separated treehouses with one feature: the higher a house is built, the more socially important is the person who lives in it. A ceremony that assumes great value among the Leopard people is umgangela, the art of stick fighting, for which there are many rules of etiquette to be followed, such as: only sticks are allowed in fighting; one can only fight an opponent within the same age, and one cannot hit an opponent if they become disarmed.