Most prolific man-killing leopard

The most prolific man-killing leopard was the Leopard of Panar, an adult male leopard deemed responsible for the deaths of over 400 people during the early 1900s in the Panar region of the Almora district, situated in Kumaon, northern India. It was finally dispatched by renowned hunter Jim Corbett in 1910, but actually attracted less attention than other, less-notorious leopard man-killers, owing to the remote location of Almora.

The Leopard of Panar was one of two Kumaon leopard man-killers active during the first quarter-century of the 1900s. The other was the Leopard of Rudraprayag, an adult male deemed responsible for the deaths of more than 125 people, beginning in 1918. Its reign of terror continued for eight years, until it was finally dispatched by Jim Corbett in 1926.

Virtually all man-killing leopards are male.

Also, it is worth noting that both the Leopard of Panar and the Leopard of Rudraprayag began their onslaughts following an epidemic (cholera and influenza respectively) that resulted in many human corpses being left in the open, where the leopards scavenged them, leading some authorities to speculate that this is what incited in them a liking for the taste of human flesh.