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Killer leopard shot dead by foresters
The Hindu Times ^
| 9-23
| The Hindu Times
Posted on 09/23/2003 3:17:44 PM PDT by ambrose
Gujarat: Killer leopard shot dead by foresters
Vadodara, Sept. 23. (UNI): A full-grown leopard, which had created terror in the Baria forest division in Gujarat's Dahod district killing 11 people during the last one month, was finally shot dead by the sharp-shooters in Shanjoi village.
The man-eater was sprayed with bullets after a six-hour search operation by the forest officials in a maize field where it had fled escaped after inflicting severe injuries to a 40 year-old woman working in a field, official sources said yesterday.
With the increase in the leopard's attack on the villagers living in the Dhanpur and Mainpur forest ranges of the Baria division, the authorities had recently requisitioned three sharp-shooters from the Gir forests, and put up bait cages at about a dozen places to trap the man-eater.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: wildlife
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"The Feline of Peace"
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posted on
09/23/2003 3:17:44 PM PDT
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
Makes a nice rug!
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posted on
09/23/2003 3:30:30 PM PDT
by
Shmokey
(Always be prepared)
To: ambrose
LOL, feline of peace. Nice bit of self satire ;-)
BTW, I like your dog of peace articles.
To: Prodigal Son; martin_fierro; Shermy; MineralMan
Hey, a leopard is no more dangerous than a Siamese house cat!
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posted on
09/23/2003 3:43:15 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(Free Tommy Chong!)
To: ambrose
"The Feline of Peace"Prey to the killer leopard, he is now considered holey.
To: ambrose
Isn't your picture of a panther? I thought that a leopard looked like this:
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:06:24 PM PDT
by
DeSoto
(Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Twain)
To: ambrose
"The man-eater was sprayed with bullets after a six-hour search operation by the forest officials in a maize field"................."three sharp-shooters from the Gir forests" ..." put up bait cages at about a dozen places to trap the man-eater".
That is truly impressive ! I know alot of guys who spend days on end in a lightly wooded forest trying to shoot a deer, and come home with just a story!!!!!! These guys bagged a leopard in six hours !! I bet those forest officials never go hungry.
To: DeSoto
I believe that they are the same beasts (like a mountain lion and cougar). Black leopards aren't terribly common.
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:37:27 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(Free Tommy Chong!)
To: DeSoto
"A panther's like a leopard,
Except he isn't peppered.
When you see a panther crouch,
Prepare to say 'Ouch.'
Better yet, if called by a panther,
Don't anther."
- Ogden Nash
Here's the Siamese Cat of Peace, BTW:
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:42:57 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
To: ambrose
sorry - meant to ping you to the Siamese Housecat of Peace . . .
And as a free bonus - Col. Patterson's "Man-Eaters of Tsavo," who terrorized the Uganda Railway in the early years of the last century. They killed something like 100 railway workers and things pretty much ground to a halt until Col. Patterson managed to bag them both.
![](http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/tsavo/images/field_museum.jpg)
And yeah, they're pretty mangy. That's probably why they took to the Uganda Free Lunch Counter.
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posted on
09/23/2003 6:11:17 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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