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The Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (by Jim Corbett) is an even more chilling tale of an animal being cunning. I read Jim Corbett's books when I was younger and enjoyed them but now I've questions about the numbers themselves. Seems too far-fetched for a leopard to kill 125 humans.

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I have my doubts too :-) but then I fall back on two things 1. The Raj were apparently sticklers for record keeping. 2. The nature of Corbett himself. He never killed a cat, unless he had proof that it had killed a human and he would hunt only if the reward was withdrawn. It doesnt fit his character to overblow the kill numbers.

The Tsavo lions are also believed to have killed over a hundred people before they were killed. (interestingly by a man who learned the art of hunting maneaters in India)

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