Leopard "scratches" killed or maimed many a hunter back in the "good old days" before antibiotics. Apparently they aren't exactly fastidious about cleaning their fingernails after feeding off a carcass that they have hung up in a tree to "ripen" for a few hot days....
If you want a fairly realistic image of the threat leopards pose to hunters, there's a decent episode in the old BBC TV series "The Flame Trees of Thika." Terrifying. Makes me want to take my Savage/Valmet 12 guage double to bed with me at night!
REALLY GREAT pix--Thanks!
Last edited by Mesa; 10/15/19.
