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" Golden with Nine Lives. Hard works reaps golden rewards. A leopard licks it’s paws as it caresses the fruits of its labour safely in a tree "
There are not too many photos of Leopard depredation on Cattle posted here.
Anyway, here is a cow killed by a Leopard.  *This image is copyright of its original author "Cow killed in leopard's attack...... Two cows were killed by leopard in Chattamunnar region here the other day. The presence of the wild animal is reported in the area after two years. Nagaraj had let three cows to graze in the place and they did not return in the evening. When searched for the cattle, one cow was found to have killed by the leopard near the forest area and another one near the tea plantation Munnar veterinary doctor arrived at the place and completed post-mortem and buried the carcass" Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/off...-1.3875027
Two Leopards share a Cattle kill.
It is likely one of them killed the Cattle, but allowed another Leopard to eat with him.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author "Images of two leopards sharing a kill were caught by camera traps laid by the Kagaznagar Forest Division in Sirpur range on Friday. Forest officials said the camera traps were laid after reports of cattle kill in this range came in on Wednesday morning. “Generally, leopards are solitary and territorial in nature. They hunt alone and prefer small prey which can be lifted onto a tree or carried to their hide-outs. In this case, though, a huge cattle was killed and shared by two adult leopards,” Kagaznagar Divisional Forest Officer A Narasimha Reddy said in a press release." https://telanganatoday.com/two-leopards-...kagaznagar The Cattle that was killed is mentioned as a bull here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...554480.cms  (04-08-2020, 02:50 AM)Styx38 Wrote: Two Leopards share a Cattle kill. Could it be a mating couple? The one on the left seems to be a male and the other one a female. (04-08-2020, 12:37 PM)Luipaard Wrote:(04-08-2020, 02:50 AM)Styx38 Wrote: Two Leopards share a Cattle kill. I was going to say that, but this is what the forest officer stated. “Generally, leopards are solitary and territorial in nature. They hunt alone and prefer small prey which can be lifted onto a tree or carried to their hide-outs. In this case, though, a huge cattle was killed and shared by two adult leopards,” Kagaznagar Divisional Forest Officer A Narasimha Reddy said in a press release. “Group hunting or sharing of kill is rare among leopards, unless they are siblings or mating pairs or mother-and-cubs. Wildlife behaviour is very interesting and unpredictable. There are always exceptions to general behaviour,” he added" ^ The officer stated this incident as though if it was too odd to be a mating pair.
Leopard kills cow.
 *This image is copyright of its original author Leopard attack: “This is the hybrid cow that was attacked by a leopard. The man led the cows to graze in the fallow land while he was working in his field close by [previous image]. Then he saw all the cows running out of fear. By the time he reached the spot, his cow had been killed.” https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/th...er-attack/ 
Indochinese leopards prey on banteng
Eastern Cambodia’s leopards are also part of the only leopard population in the world to prey predominantly on an animal weighing more than 500 kilograms — the banteng. By contrast, male Indochinese leopards in the eastern Cambodian study site appear to prey predominantly on an animal more than five times its mass, making this the only known leopard population in the world to do so. The leopards there could be targeting banteng because the large herbivore represents about 70 percent of the available ungulate biomass within the study site, Rostro-García said. Moreover, tigers, whose main prey was the banteng, went locally extinct in the landscape a decade ago, allowing leopards to take over as the apex predator. “Tigers kill and displace leopards, and previous research showed that when tigers are present, leopards consume smaller prey to avoid encounters with tigers,” Rostro-García said. “Thus, the leopards in eastern Cambodia likely changed their predatory behavior to include the banteng, the largest herbivore, which may have been previously off limits to them when tigers were present.”  *This image is copyright of its original author The Indochinese leopard’s main prey in the study area was banteng, a rare species of wild cattle. Camera trap image https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/cambodias-banteng-eating-leopards-edge-closer-to-extinction-new-study-finds/
Leopard eating Sambar kill.
 *This image is copyright of its original author "Arriving at the Kabook Kabieng ranger station just at dusk, the head of the station Loong Waitanyakarn, another good friend, came immediately to the truck and said, “ a sambar mother and fawn have been killed by a leopard or wild dogs not far from the station and let’s go look”. http://brucekekule.com/wild_species_repo...rgest-cat/
David Lloyd: " Double Helping. Maasai Mara 2015 "
A big leopard catching a young wildebeest. In perspective we could believe that two wildebeests are involved... I really don't think so.
Deon Kelbrick: " Leopard mom and cub making a beautiful scene in a marula tree with an impala kill. "
Mother Leopard with Cow kill.
 *This image is copyright of its original author Fig. 2. Leopard feeding on a cow in the Alborz Mountains, Iran (Photo Iranian Cheetah Society). http://wildlife.ir/Files/library/CN46_Farhadinia_et_al.pdf |
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