Wild Boar

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While adult Wild Boar are formidable in their own right, Leopards have been documented to kill them in some parts of Asia:

1) Although most were juveniles, an adult wild boar was part of the Leopard's diet in Iran:

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Source: Elmira Sharbafi, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Hamid R. Rezaie, Alex Richard Braczkowski. (2016) Prey of the Persian Leopard ( Panthera pardus saxicolor ) in a mixed forest-steppe landscape in northeastern Iran (Mammalia: Felidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 1–8.





2) The Sri Lankan Source I posted before mentioned that while there were 3 Sambar Stag killed by the Leopard, there was one adult wild boar killed by a Leopard:

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Source: Kittle, Andrew et. al. The ecology and behaviour of a protected area Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) population. Tropical Ecology 58(1):71-86  February 2017




3) A Leopard killed an adult male wild boar in India:

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source: Maheshwari, A., Food habits and prey abundance of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (M.Sc Thesis), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. 64 p., 2006.


Edit: I got this from a different forum, but it was to show that a Leopard can kill an adult wild boar. Reply