They were huddled around a fire on a cold night in a land broken with scrub and thornbush and occaisonal trees, talking about what they would hunt the next day, while the old skinner told his son to watch how he used a special knife to remove flesh from the skin of the cape, and that the eyelids were the trickiest part. He turned to see if his son was paying attention, but his son was gone.
After calling for him, they raised a gas lantern and saw behind where the skinner and his son had been sitting, the paw prints of a large leopard, and the marks of a body being dragged. It had evidentally struck for the skull and immediately pierced the brain, killing him instantly and without a sound, and dragged him away with none of them seeing anything.
It's a technique common to both leopards and jaguars...they're also the most intelligent of the predatory cats. It's no surprise to hear that the victim in the article had his scalp ripped off, sounds like the leopard was missing a step that day.
Whoa..thanks for sharing..I think! Man they are powerful!
Yep, these cats are the most dangerous predator to humans, period.
They can shadow you step-by-step in perfect silence from a few feet away and hit you before you realize you even heard anything . At night, a person stands no chance even with the most powerful weapon.
Thankfully, they don't normally enjoy the taste of human flesh. However, history has recorded a few of these critters developing a taste for humans and having hundreds of confirmed kills. The hunting parties sent to kill them were often stalked and eaten one-by-one.