Rainforest Leopards

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About gorillas as prey species, this study is for me more like confirmation to what is already known. That gorillas are prey animal for leopard. But then again what comes to terms used to describe it, that how often/regularly it happens, that is another thing.

Quote from that study:

Predation on apes has been reported from other studies
on leopards (Hart et al., 1996; Ososky, 1998), and leopards
are believed to be the main cause of mortality in a popu-
lation of chimpanzees in Taı
¨National Park in Ivory Coast
(Boesch, 1991). The finding in this study that gorillas are a
prey species is new, studies of leopard scat had so far failed
to identify gorillas as prey species (Hart et al., 1996;
Ososky, 1998; Ray & Sunquist, 2001), although leopard
attacks have been reported from studies on gorillas
(Johnson, 1931; Schaller, 1963; Fay et al., 1995; Watson,
1999–2000).


Here is link to that study so that everyone interested can check themselves:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227762448_Leopard_food_habits_in_the_Lope_National_Park_Gabon_Central_Africa Reply