I think this every time I come across her in explore, but when you flirt with the leopardess in explore it says that your lion and her go off an do “god knows what”, implying mating. I think that, when this happens, there should be a 1% chance that you’d have a leopon cub dropped off at your den 3 days later by the leopardess. So same incubation period as a normal breeding, which a possible surprise later.

Maybe there could be a special item during certain events where it increases your chance of getting a pon from that pairing by a random percentage. Still not super high, maybe instead of the normal 1% it could increase it by between 2%-15% so a max of 3% to 16% possible.

Update: I wasn’t aware of the original percentage being around .007%. So, instead of making it 1% chance, what about matching it at .007% chance upon the encounter?

Update #2: so referencing Terrinthia’s post below, leopons come from a lioness and make leopard pairing. But there COULD be a new hybrid of Lipard, which would come from the pairing of a male lion and a female leopard. This could come specifically from that explore encounter mentioned before, with the .007% chance of having a lipard dropped off at your den 3 days later. It would require a work up of essentially a new hybrid I suppose?