The Leopard of Panar was a man-eating male leopard alleged to have killed and eaten as many as 410 people over a period of several years in Kumaon District of Northern India in the early 20th century.The Panar Leopard was hunted down and killed in 1910 by famed big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett.
In "Man-Eaters of Kumaon" Corbett wrote: "A leopard, in an area in which his natural food is scarce, finding these bodies very soon acquires a taste ...
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The Leopard of Panar was a man-eating male leopard alleged to have killed and eaten as many as 410 people over a period of several years in Kumaon District of Northern India in the early 20th century.The Panar Leopard was hunted down and killed in 1910 by famed big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett.
In "Man-Eaters of Kumaon" Corbett wrote: "A leopard, in an area in which his natural food is scarce, finding these bodies very soon acquires a taste for human flesh, and when the disease dies down and normal conditions are established, he very naturally, on finding his food supply cut off, takes to killing human beings. Of the two man-eating leopards of Kumaon, which between them killed five hundred and twenty-five human beings, one followed on the heels of a very severe outbreak of cholera, while the other followed the mysterious disease which swept through India in 1918 and was called 'war fever'."
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