Indian man recalls leopard attack caught on camera

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/January/international_January316.xml&section=international

(AFP)

9 January 2012

GUWAHATI, India - An Indian labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him.

Pintu Dey is recovering in hospital in India’s northeastern state of Assam after being badly mauled outside his house in an attack captured in a series of startling and gruesome photographs.

“My two children were inside the house and so I went to save them when I found some policemen aiming to shoot the leopard,” Dey, who is in his 40s, told AFP from his hospital bed.

“I pleaded against killing the cat and literally stood between the policemen and the leopard like a shield, and all of a sudden I found myself attacked and blood splattered all over.”

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1. The pictures on MSNBC are graphic and amazing.

One second the cat is poised, the next moment, the man's scalp is flapping upward. In the second photo, the cat's paw and claws are spread and are remarkably HUGE.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/08/10054121-leopard-scalps-man-during-deadly-attack-in-india

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2. A lepoard can

carry nearly its own weight up a tree in its jaws. They are not known for their sense of humor about being cornered.