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8 persons hurt in leopard attacks in 3 areas of MP’s Shahdol district in last 2 days. On Sunday, 3 persons, including a police ASI and a woman were critically wounded in leopard attack at Shobha ...
Leopard of Punanai: The leopard called "man-eater of Punanai" is the only officially accounted for man-eating leopard of Sri Lanka, where leopard attacks rarely happen. [65] [66] It killed at least 12 people on a jungle road near the hamlet of Punanai, not far from Batticaloa in the east of Sri Lanka. Its first victim was a child.
Leopard of Rudraprayag after being shot by Jim Corbett in 1926. The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a male man-eating leopard that measured to about 7'6" long, reputed to have killed over 125 people. It was eventually killed by hunter and author Jim Corbett.
Man-eating leopards are a small percentage of all leopards, but have undeniably been a menace in some areas; [8] one leopard in India killed over 200 people. [8] Jim Corbett was noted to have stated that unlike tigers, which usually became man-eaters because of infirmity, leopards more commonly did so after scavenging on human corpses.
Total of 34 people have died from lion and leopard attacks in past two years in Gujarat
Video has emerged of a family following a leopard's trail, oblivious to its presence moments earlier in northern India's Uttarakhand state. The incident, captured on a camera trap, took place near ...
A year later, a 40-year-old woman was attacked and killed by a leopard in Bhiwandi, Thane City, in 2013. Five days later, a 14-year-old shepherd survived a leopard attack in the same region. [14] In 2014, a two-year-old child went missing from Ghoong village in Wada. [15] August 2015 saw four leopard attacks in Thane city. [16]
Residents of a town in northern India are sticking to an early curfew because of a particular man-eating leopard. The leopard reportedly preys on drunk men stumbling home from a night out. It ...