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Young Blonde Girl Undresses Leopard Panties On The Couch
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While luxury establishments may boast the fact that wild animals can be seen at close range on a daily basis, the leopard's camouflage and propensity to hide and stalk prey make leopard sightings rare. For example, in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park, leopards have been ranked by visitors to be among the least visible of all animals in the park despite their high concentration in the reserve.
Man-eating
While most leopards avoid people, humans may occasionally be targeted as prey. Most healthy leopards prefer wild prey to humans, but injured, sickly or struggling cats with a shortage of regular prey may resort to hunting humans and become habituated to it. Two extreme cases occurred in India: the first leopard, "the Leopard of Rudraprayag", may have killed over 125 people; the second, the "Panar Leopard", was believed to have killed more than 400, after injury by a poacher made it unable to hunt normal prey. Both were killed by the hunter Jim Corbett. Man-eating leopards are considered bold by feline standards and may enter human settlements for prey, more so than lions and tigers. Author and big game hunter Kenneth Anderson, who had first-hand experience with many man-eating leopards, described them as far more threatening than tigers:
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