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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 ...
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.
The first was the Panar Leopard in 1910, which allegedly killed 400 people. The second was the man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag in 1926, which terrorized the pilgrims journeying to the holy Hindu shrines Kedarnath and Badrinath for more than eight years, and was said to be responsible for more than 126 deaths.
What started as a casual picnic turned into a real-life horror show when the picnickers decided to lure a leopard closer. A viral video captured the group of picnickers visiting a forested area in ...
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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Despite claiming a long history of safety with their big cats, a former acrobat was viciously attacked by a leopard decades before the infamous attack on Roy.
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