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From the Kgalagadi Leopard Project Facebook page:
"We reckon that this wildebeest is probably around 80-100kg based on its age (~1 year). A male springbok is around 41kg. So approximately double that!"  *This image is copyright of its original author
Leopard with a Cape Cobra kill.
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Leopard with large Cattle kill.
 *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-l...ry-2195616
Big Persian male with wild boar kill
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Zebra killed by Leopard
 *This image is copyright of its original author "This camera-trap image shows a leopard with a zebra kill. The actual event was witnessed by a colleague who confirms that the leopard came out of nowhere and caught the zebra totally by surprise." https://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/2017/10/29/leopards-most-catty-of-cats/
Sambar Deer killed by Leopard.
 *This image is copyright of its original author source: https://m.facebook.com/HortonPlains/phot...6Brz1D787O Sambar Deer tend to make up a high portion of Leopard diet in Horton Plains National Park and adjacent areas due to their abundance in these regions. 'In Agrapatana, Sambar was most frequently represented in scat samples (59.1%), consistent with probable prey availability, given that the study area is contiguous with Horton Plains National Park (HPNP) where sambar density is estimated to be 66.5/km² (Rajapakse 2003). ' 'Previous scat analysis from HPNP found sambar in 75.8% of samples (N=22) (Ranawana et al. 1998). That fewer samples contained Sambar here than in HPNP, and more contained Black-naped Hare and Purple-faced Langurs (Table 3; 13.6% compared to 6.8% and 3.4% in HPNP, Ranawana et al. 1998) hints at variation in prey availability between the core of a protected area such as HPNP and an adjoining yet peripheral area such as Agrapatana.' source: Kittle, Andrew M., et al. "Notes on the diet and habitat selection of the Sri Lankan Leopard Panthera pardus kotiya (Mammalia: Felidae) in the central highlands of Sri Lanka." Journal of Threatened Taxa 6.9 (2014): 6214-6221.
Adult female Zebra killed by Leopard.
"25-27 September 2019 We came across an adult zebra mare carcass that, by the signs had been recently killed by a leopard – not a common prey option for leopard! No leopard in sight (or from what we could see with our poor human eyes) - we put up a camera trap. When looking at the camera trap images the next morning, we saw that a female leopard came back to her kill only about 19 minutes after we had finished putting up the camera and driven away. These photos show that two different female leopards fed off the carcass as well as bushpig, spotted hyena and African civet!"  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author https://m.facebook.com/pg/welgevonden.re...5130213470
Indian Leopard with (stray?) dog kill in Mumbai
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Leopard with a Fallow Deer kill.
 *This image is copyright of its original author 'A leopard hunted a yellow deer in the Mianktel protected area of Kazerun. The head of Kazerun's environmental protection department told IRNA on Tuesday that a four-year-old deer fell prey to a leopard that had found its way to the yellow deer's habitat.' https://www.irna.ir/news/84158144/%DA%AF...8%B4%D8%AF 
Here is a Sambar Deer that was killed by a Leopard in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand.
Such an opportunistic hunter; this mating pair noticed an impala incoming and decided to take it down although it was the male who took it actually down.
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