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"A familiar old face is Tingana, the male leopard in the Northern Sabi Sands. We found the old boy resting on top of a termite mound just after dawn. He peacefully gazed across the area for quite a while, and then jumped off to look for a meal. Later, it was reported that he successfully hunted a fully grown female kudu. The weight of a fully grown female Kudu can range to anything between 150 kg to 210 kg... That's quite scary isn't it... The power of these big cats are astounding!" https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx4MEWXg1XL/?fbclid=IwAR3gAQDtsJhDWaWDgqmnZSwjQ1UrcsIF7gr9cx2e2xAdAi-LHYQhxgP72O0 
I posted this before on the Persian Leopard thread , but here is a Leopard and its Maral Red Deer kill
@ So this Red Deer Hind is 200+ kg.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324758673_Intraspecific_killing_among_Leopards_Panthera_pardus_in_Iran_Mammalia_Felidae 
Leopard kills hartebeest (link)
“A male leopard sprung out of the bushes where he had been hiding and clamped onto the muzzle of the hartebeest to suffocate him. The power of the leopard was impressive. He braced his body weight against the hartebeest with his back claws, embraced the neck of his prey with sharp front claws and clung to the muzzle in a kiss of death until the hartebeest suffocated.”  *This image is copyright of its original author
The Hunt....
It was raw nature unfolded when two different sub-adult males (YM 16 & YM 34) from different home ranges and recently left the family's trying to establish new territory in the same area surprisingly tolerating each other and in this case hunting together and sharing the kill. When we reached the spot we observed this big ratting inside the bush when YM 16 was still trying to strangle this Huge Spotted deer to death while the other was eating it alive. its very interesting behavior for the second time in couple of months these Yala leopards have been sharing its kills..  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Not sure whether this has been posted before, but a leopard steals a buffalo calf from its angry mother.
Seems one place outside of Africa where leopards hoist kills up trees often is Bandipur in India.
These are all Axis or Spotted deer kills  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author http://walkthewilderness.net/leopard-with-spotted-deer-kill-in-bandipur/  *This image is copyright of its original author https://hiveminer.com/Tags/carcass%2Cdark
According to Sir Alfred Edward Pease, a British hunter in Africa who wrote the "Book of the lion" (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...6/mode/2up), in the Atlas region of North Africa, the black panther, as in a melanistic version of the Barbary leopard, was a more ferocious and feared man-eater than the Barbary lion:
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India is an area with one of the highest Human-Leopard conflict cases.
Here are some kills made by leopards: Horse killed by leopard  *This image is copyright of its original author Donkey killed by leopard  *This image is copyright of its original author Mule killed by leopard  *This image is copyright of its original author Mare killed by leopard  *This image is copyright of its original author Of course, the occasional human that is killed and eaten by a leopard:  *This image is copyright of its original author source: Kumar, Devender, 2011, “Study of Leopard Menace, Food Habits and Habitat Parameters in Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh”, thesis PhD, Saurashtra University link: http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/574/ (06-08-2019, 07:30 AM)Styx38 Wrote: India is an area with one of the highest Human-Leopard conflict cases. Recently, in the region of Kruger National Park, a South African leopard killed a toddler inside a fenced camp, shockingly, before getting killed itself: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...ruger-park  *This image is copyright of its original author
Leopard with Manchurian Sika Deer kill
 *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.mammalwatching.com/2019/02/19/amur-leopard-siberian-tiger-success-next-available-trips/ |
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