Territorial leopards will occasionally kill and eat their younger competition, but it's rare to glimpse the act firsthand.
In shocking photos, a leopard can be seen pulling another leopard’s carcass out of a tree, presumably to eat it.
There are many examples of leopard cannibalism in the wild, and experts speculate on the likely causes. In the most common scenario, older male leopards will kill younger ones to ward off competition and stake their territory.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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