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Sep 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#IndiAves
The stuff of legend. Discovered on the way to a birding trip in Chopta.
The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a man-eater, notorious for having killed over 125 people.
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The first victim of the leopard was from Benji village in 1918. For the next 8 years, village folk and townspeople alike were terrified of venturing alone at night on the road between the shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath, for it passed through the leopard's territory.
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