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Despite being predators, most leopards avoid humans. Still, people are occasionally targeted as prey.

Most healthy leopards prefer wild prey to humans, but injured, sickly or struggling cats with a shortage of regular prey often turn to hunting people and may become habituated to it. In two extreme cases, both in India, one leopard may have killed over 125 people, and the second leopard more than 400, after injury by a poacher made it unable to hunt normal prey.

Man-eating leopards are considered bold by feline standards and commonly enter human settlements for prey, more so than lions and tigers.

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