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The Panar Leopard killed by Jim Corbett British hunter Jim Corbett poses after shooting the Rudraprayag leopard on 2 May 1926. Leopard of Panar : The Leopard of Panar was a male leopard reported as being responsible for at least 400 fatal attacks on humans in the Panar region of the Almora district, situated in Kumaon Northern India in the ...
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 ...
The leopard had started hunting people eight years earlier, when it was still young; therefore it was not old age that caused it to turn to hunting people. Corbett wrote that, in his opinion, human bodies left unburied during disease epidemics were the main reason for the Rudraprayag and Panar leopards to become man-eaters.
Corbett died of a heart attack a few days after he finished his sixth book, Tree Tops, and was buried at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Nyeri. Man-eaters of Kumaon was a great success in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the first edition of the American Book-of-the-Month Club being 250,000 copies.
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 ...
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