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A viral video captured the group of picnickers visiting a forested area in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The group spotted a leopard lurking in the nearby woods and began calling out to it.
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 ...
On January 6, 2015, an Indian leopard injured a boy in Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh. [68] Another leopard killed 2 men in Kolar district, Karnataka. [69] On January 13, 2015, a leopard injured a woman's neck with its paw in Jiuni Valley of Mandi district, while she had gone to collect fodder for household animals. [70]
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.
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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]
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 . Attacks
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