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NitroX
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Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??
29/06/07 01:57 PM

In India individual leopard were recorded as killing into the hundreds of victims. As a killer of man, individual leopard probably exceed lion and tiger (in Africa and India). But for some reason there have never been the factually recorded accounts of leopard as a mankiller in Africa. I wonder why? Perhaps it is more accepted? Or blamed on lions?

When you hunt in Africa, ask your PH if he has ever had a close encounter (ie injury) with a Big 5 animal. Almost every time if they have had one it is from a leopard. But also almost always the leopard fails to kill. The injuries can be horrific though.

The experts seem to think leopard ranks definitely in the Big Five, so I don't see many today that have the experience to argue with them.

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JMO but even though it has been suggested Hippo makes up the Big Six, maybe if hunted on land. If sniped in the rivers from a riverbank hide other than size I disagree. The species however is the biggest killer of Africans from the animal kingdom.

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PS Its the tiny "5" that kill, the tick, the mosquito, the snake, the virus organism, the STDs.

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PPS I have not had the pleasure of taking either animal yet, so the above is all just armchair theorising. One day ...

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Edited by NitroX (29/06/07 04:04 PM)

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Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	hoppdoc	28/06/07 01:36 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	xausa	28/06/07 04:46 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	Charles_Helm	28/06/07 12:29 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	larcher	29/06/07 12:01 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	NitroX	29/06/07 01:57 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	9.3x57	29/06/07 03:01 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	hoppdoc	28/06/07 05:31 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	Ripp	29/06/07 09:47 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	9.3x57	30/06/07 12:24 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	Ripp	01/07/07 01:07 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	xausa	30/06/07 03:13 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	shakari	30/06/07 06:12 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	hoppdoc	30/06/07 11:13 AM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	shakari	30/06/07 04:36 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	9.3x57	28/06/07 11:01 PM
Re: Is the Leopard a Big 5 animal??	SAHUNT	28/06/07 03:37 AM

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